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28.06.2024 - 09:21 / theunconventionalgardener.com / Emma Doughty
Hello, Gardeners of the Galaxy! It’s time for another exciting episode, and our Mission Specialist this time is the wonderful Borja Barbero Barcenilla, who is talking about what happens to plant telomeres in space. Borja and I had a brilliant chat about his breathtaking research, including an upcoming flight experiment, a special mutant Arabidopsis strain, and the sci-fi experience of putting your plants into a particle accelerator. And if you’ve ever wondered what plant a Spaniard would choose to take into space, well… you won’t want to miss it!
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02:03 Borja explains what telomeres are, and why they’re important parts of our DNA.
03:05 Studying telomeres in space was a team effort, with the Shippen Lab piggybacking on the APEX-07 experiment.
08:19 Borja’s research had some interesting findings about what happens to plant telomeres and telomerase activity in space.
11:02 Back on planet Earth, Borja and his team are studying what happens to telomeres when plants are grown in (simulated) lunar regolith.
14:43 Another strand of the research meant putting Arabidopsis in a particle accelerator at NASA’s Space Radiation Lab.
17:73 What happens when you cross Arabidopsis with a tardigrade? Awesome science, that’s what!
18:43 APEX-12 is an upcoming flight experiment exploring plant telomeres in the space radiation environment.
21:35 Would Borja ever accompany his research into space?
24:13 What would he choose as his Fantasy Space Plant?
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