{"id":1617,"date":"2024-07-25T15:45:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T19:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2024-07-25T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T19:44:05","slug":"moonshot-idea-sending-seeds-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/moonshot-idea-sending-seeds-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonshot Idea: Sending Seeds into Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shifting land use patterns, \u00a0population growth, heat waves, droughts, floods, erratic rainfall, worsening pest and disease outbreaks &#8212; they all play a\u00a0 part in the ever-increasing food insecurity that is plaguing many parts of the world.\u00a0 But there may be a far-out solution: sending seeds into space where they are exposed to cosmic radiation, extreme temperatures and low gravity, which alters their DNA in unpredictable but potentially beneficial ways.\u00a0 Scientists hope that these seeds might sprout into plants that can survive changing conditions here on earth, making the plants resistant to drought or heat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can the harsh conditions of space breed more resistant crops for Earth?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/food-and-agriculture\/can-the-harsh-conditions-of-space-breed-more-resistant-crops-for-earth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/grist.org\/food-and-agriculture\/can-the-harsh-conditions-of-space-breed-more-resistant-crops-for-earth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781501754623\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shifting land use patterns, \u00a0population growth, heat waves, droughts, floods, erratic rainfall, worsening pest and disease outbreaks &#8212; they all play a\u00a0 part in the ever-increasing food insecurity that is plaguing many parts of the world.\u00a0 But there may be a far-out solution: sending seeds into space where they are exposed to cosmic radiation, extreme&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/moonshot-idea-sending-seeds-into-space\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Moonshot Idea: Sending Seeds into Space&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,44,53,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-food","category-global","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}