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Hello,
I would like to suggest a presentation by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and ten Brazilian universities. They are conducting significant research on space agriculture, which is a promising contribution within the scope of the NASA Artemis Accords. Embrapa’s work could offer valuable insights into what’s happening in South America regarding space agriculture.
If this sounds of interest, I can extend an invitation to them for a presentation.
What do you think?
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Yes please
Great idea!
Thank you
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Plant means clorofil we know plant tissue and different plant structure is found NASA Google site. I love biology very much biology is one of my favourite subjects but I am computer science engineer and love computational biology
So for your request please mention the biology part where I need to focus then I do research in NASA
NASA Research learning new things is life of me
PRITAM KUMAR SETT
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Hi Pritam. Thanks for reaching out I appreciate your passion, ok, how to channel that to help humanity grow crops in space…. There is a computer science opportunity to create a python or r code (or any language) that’s pulls normalised counts from the OSDR and projects it onto custom pathway visualisation tools like KEGG, Ara cyc or (one of the other path visualisation systems). There are usually lots of pathway option to choose from. So try searching for ‘photorespiration’, ‘flavonoid metabolism’, ‘circadian rhythm’, ‘photosynthesis’, and ‘oxidative phosphorylation’ will allow you to select pathways that contain genes that regularly differentially expressed in space flight missions’. Summarising and Visualising these molecular biology pathways for each of the different OSDR plant accessions/ studies eg OSDR-38 is key to understand plant adaption to spaceflight related stress and would provide new results / insights for AWG focus groups. In addition, the code could be adjusted to look at human or rodent pathways if the plant proof of principle is successful. That’s the beautiful thing about computer code, it’s so flexible that once you know what questions to design it to try and answer.
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