Harvest from heavenly breeding

Xinhua | Updated: 2022-08-12 16:29
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Photo taken on Feb 26, 2021 shows sprouting rice seeds that had made a round trip to the moon aboard the Chang'e-5 probe at the greenhouse of the National Engineering Research Center of Plant Space Breeding of South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province. [Photo/Xinhua]

The space breeding tests have been conducted in all the flight missions during the essential technology verification phase of China's space station project. Thousands of crop seeds and microorganisms were carried into space and brought back to Earth by Shenzhou-12 and Shenzhou-13 crews.

Taikonauts aboard the Shenzhou-14, launched on June 5, will perform more such breeding experiments there.

Zhao believed that with the progress of the space industry, humans would bring more seeds to space and create a "space oasis" in the future, which may offer new solutions for global agricultural development, biodiversity protection, as well as for climate change.

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