This is the first edition of the astrobotany handbook. The handbook serves as a manual for researchers and research protocol for spaceflight plant biology. The techniques and protocols discussed range from simple procedures to the more technical and specialized. Let’s grow plants in space.
- astrobotany experimental design
- ethanol seed sterilization
- making space media (agar)
- vapor phase seed sterilization
- genetic engineering and mutant plants
- in-silica molecular biology
- creation of a rescue line
- RNAsequencing
- microarray
- standard gravitropic assay
- standard barrier assay
