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Scientists: Worms Could Kill Pests on Space Vegetables – Futurism
“As we look into a future when crops will be grown in space, we expect that beneficial nematodes will offer one-of-a-kind opportunities to establish agriculture for long-term space exploration.”
Space Worms
If long-term missions to space or even new worlds are to have any chance of success, astronauts will likely need to learn to grow their own food.
That means developing a space version of agriculture. Now, scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the biotech company Pheronym brought the idea one step closer to reality with the discovery that roundworms are just as good at gobbling up pest insects up in space as they are down here, giving future astronauts a new way to …
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