ArticleGenes2018
The Multiplanetary Future of Plant Synthetic Biology.
Article in Genes, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effects of Microbial Fertilizers on the Properties of Simulated Lunar Soil and Lettuce Growth.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Synthetic Biology of Plants and Microbes for Agriculture, Environment, and Future Applications.Chemical reviews · 2026Review
- Biomaterials for organically generated habitats beyond Earth.Science advances · 2025Article
- Exploring the potential of plant astrobiology: adapting flora for extra-terrestrial habitats: a review.Biologia futura · 2025Review
- Tissue culture-independent approaches to revolutionizing plant transformation and gene editing.Horticulture research · 2025Article
- Article
- Phosphorus-solubilizing bacteria improve the growth of Nicotiana benthamiana on lunar regolith simulant by dissociating insoluble inorganic phosphorus.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Harnessing bioengineered microbes as a versatile platform for space nutrition.Nature communications · 2022Review
- Bioactive Compounds and Antioxidant Activity of Lettuce Grown in Different Mixtures of Monogastric-Based Manure With Lunar and Martian Soils.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Homecoming: rewinding the reductive evolution of the chloroplast genome for increasing crop yields.Nature communications · 2021Article
- An Oxygen Delivery Polymer Enhances Seed Germination in a Martian-like Environment.Astrobiology · 2020Article
- Mars Regolith Simulant Ameliorated by Compost as in situ Cultivation Substrate Improves Lettuce Growth and Nutritional Aspects.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- The case for biotech on Mars.Nature biotechnology · 2020Article
- Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Editorial: Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology in Relation to Drought Tolerance or Avoidance in Plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Article
- Plant Biosystems Design Research Roadmap 1.0.Biodesign research · 2020Review
- The Synthetic Biology Toolkit for Photosynthetic Microorganisms.Plant physiology · 2019Review
- Plant synthetic biology could drive a revolution in biofuels and medicine.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2019Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The interest in human space journeys to distant planets and moons has been re-ignited in recent times and there are ongoing plans for sending the first manned missions to Mars in the near future. In addition to generating oxygen, fixing carbon, and recycling waste and water, plants could play a critical role in producing food and biomass feedstock for the microbial manufacture of materials, chemicals, and medicines in long-term interplanetary outposts. However, because life on Earth evolved under the conditions of the terrestrial biosphere, plants will not perform optimally in different planetary habitats. The construction or transportation of plant growth facilities and the availability of resources, such as sunlight and liquid water, may also be limiting factors, and would thus impose additional challenges to efficient farming in an extraterrestrial destination. Using the framework of the forthcoming human missions to Mars, here we discuss a series of bioengineering endeavors that will enable us to take full advantage of plants in the context of a Martian greenhouse. We also propose a roadmap for research on adapting life to Mars and outline our opinion that synthetic biology efforts towards this goal will contribute to solving some of the main agricultural and industrial challenges here on Earth.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.