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Experiment Overview


Brief Summary

Understanding the effects of gravity on plant life is essential in preparation for future interplanetary exploration. The ability to produce high energy, low mass food sources during space flight will enable the maintenance of crew health during long duration missions while having a reduced impact on resources necessary for long distance travel. Additional applications of a plant growth chamber include using plants as components of regenerative life support systems for travel to the Moon and Mars.

Principal Investigator(s)

Vladimir Nikolaevich Sychev, Ph.D., Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia

Co-Investigator(s)/Collaborator(s)

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Developer(s)
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Sponsoring Space Agency

Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)

Sponsoring Organization

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Research Benefits

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ISS Expedition Duration:

June 2002 - September 2011

Expeditions Assigned

5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,16,18,19/20,27/28

Previous ISS Missions

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Experiment Description

Research Overview

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Description

Researches aimed at solving the problems of fundamental biology and problems of optimization of plants cultivation modes for future greenhouses as part of advanced space life support system.

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Applications

Space Applications

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Earth Applications

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Operations

Operational Requirements

Lada greenhouse consisting of: Control unit; Lighting unit; Leaf chamber; Root module; Water canister. Being a module-type system, the Lada greenhouse ensures maximum flexibility, its dimensions are decreased by four times as compared to the Svet similar greenhouse used on board the Mir OC.

Operational Protocols

Mounting and preparation of equipment for experiment performance. Study of specific features of water-air mode of the Lada greenhouse vegetation vessel in space flight conditions. Study of plants cultivation technology (Mizuna lettuce, Micro-Tom dwarfish tomatoes, dwarfish (red) pea) as applied to standard greenhouse devices. Study of the impact of space flight factors on the growth and evolution of plants which can be potentially used in space vitamin greenhouses. Study of germination and viability of plants. Study of phenology of plant evolution. Study of reproductive property of plants and production of the second generation of space seeds. Study of chemical composition of plants and seeds grown in zero-g conditions to define the content of nitrocompounds in vegetable biomass. Determination of ethylene concentration in the ISS RS atmosphere.

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Results/More Information

Assessment of productive properties of leaf vegetable plants in zero-gravity conditions and verification of land treatment to extend the closed ecological life support system techniques to spacecraft.

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Results Publications

Shagimardanova E, Levinskikh MA, Gusev OA, Sychev VN, Bingham GE, Sharipova MR, Il'inskaya ON, Sugimoto M.  Expression of Stress Response Genes in Barley Hordeum Vulgare in a Spaceflight Environment. Molecular Biology. 2010; 44(5): 734-740. DOI: 10.1134/S0026893310050080.


Gostimsky SA, Levinskikh MA, Sychev VN, Bingham GE, Kokaeva ZG, Dribnokhodova OP, Khartina GA.  The Study of the Genetic Effects in Generation of Pea Plants Cultivated During the Whole Cycle of Ontogenesis on the Board of RS ISS. Genetika. 2007; 43(8): 1050-1057. PMID: 17958304. [Russian]


Gostimsky SA, Levinskikh MA, Sychev VN, Bingham GE, Podolsky IG.  Spaceflight effects on consecutive generations of peas grown onboard the Russian segment of the International Space Station. Acta Astronautica. 2007; 60: 426-432. DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2006.09.009.


Gostimsky SA, Levinskikh MA, Sychev VN, Bingham GE, Derendiaeva TA, Signalova OB, Podolsky IG.  Growth, development and genetic status of pea plants cultivated in space greenhouse. Aviakosmicheskaia i ekologicheskaia meditsina. 2005; 39(6): 38-43. PMID: 16536032. [Russian]


Shagimardanova E, Levinskikh MA, Gusev OA, Sychev VN, Bingham GE, Tiansu Z, Kihara M, Ito K, Sugimoto M.  Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Capacity in Barley Grown Under Space Environment. Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. 2010; 74(7): 1479-1482. DOI: 10.1271/bbb.100139. PMID: 20622437.

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Ground Based Results Publications

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ISS Patents

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Related Publications

Levinskikh MA, Bingham GE, Derendiaeva TA, Sychev VN, Signalova OB, Podolsky IG, Avdeev S.  Growth and development of plants in a row of generations under the conditions of space flight (experiment Greenhouse-5). Aviakosmicheskaia i ekologicheskaia meditsina. 2001; 35(4): 45-49. PMID: 11668959. [Russian]

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Related Websites

Coordinating Scientific and Technical Council of the Russian Space Agency [Russian]

Energia - Science Research on the ISS Russian Segment

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Imagery

NASA Image: ISS009E24154 - View inside the LADA hardware at radish plants grown on ISS Expedition 9.
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Cosmonaut Sergei Treshchev with the LADA hardware opened to reveal the mizuna lettuce that was grown during ISS Expedition 5.
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NASA Image: ISS007E05298 - Close-up view of dried pea pods that have gone to seed in the Russian Lada greenhouse located in the Zvezda Service Module. They are part of an experiment to investigate plant development and genetics. The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) will soon harvest the seeds. Eventually, some will be re-planted onboard the ISS and some will be returned to Earth for further study.
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NASA Image: ISS008E21915 - Expedition 8 Commander Michael Foale (left) and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri pose beside the pea plants growing in the LADA-4 greenhouse as part of the Rastenia (Plants) experiment located in the Destiny U.S. Laboratory.
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NASA Image: ISS013E61500 - View of plant growth in a root tray inside the LADA greenhouse for the BIO-5 Rasteniya-2 (Plants-2) experiment in the Service Module (SM)/Zvezda. Photo taken during Expedition 13.
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NASA Image: ISS013E86945 - View of plant growth in a root tray inside the LADA greenhouse for the BIO-5 Rasteniya-2 (Plants-2) experiment in the Service Module (SM)/Zvezda. Photo taken during Expedition 13.
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NASA Image: ISS013E84325 - View of Spaceflight Participant, Anousheh Ansari, posing for a photo with plants in a root tray from the Lada greenhouse which are part of the BIO-5 Rasteniya-2 (Plants-2) experiment. Photo taken in the Service Module/Zvezda during the Expedition 13/ Expedition 14 crew rotation period.
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NASA Image: ISS014E15479 - Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, Expedition 14 Flight Engineer, performs his regular daily inspection of the BIO-5 Rasteniya-2 (Plants-2) experiment in the Russian Lada greenhouse in the Zvezda Service Module.
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NASA Image: ISS015E17712 - View of Expedition 15 cosmonaut and Flight Engineer, Oleg Kotov, working on the installation of Plants-1 LADA-MIS (Module for the Investigation of Substrates) experiment hardware in the in the Service Module (SM)/Zvezda. Kotov is holding a greenhouse.
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NASA Image: ISS015E18148 - View of Expedition 15 cosmonaut and Flight Engineer, Oleg Kotov, working on the installation of Plants-1 LADA-MIS (Module for the Investigation of Substrates) experiment hardware in the in the Service Module (SM)/Zvezda.
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NASA Image: ISS016E031242 - Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, Expedition 16 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, checks the progress of pea plants growing in the Russian Lada greenhouse in the Zvezda Service Module of the ISS.
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