Vegetable seeds taken into space are sprouting on Earth

Some vegetable seeds that journeyed into space have taken root and started bearing fruit in Yanggao county of Datong, a major vegetable production area in Shanxi province.

In a greenhouse at the Hualian Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center, the space vegetables include tomatoes, okra, eggplant, giant pumpkins and red peppers.

Wang Shouming, a technical staff member at the center, said the space vegetable seeds were ordinary seeds that had been carried into orbit with a satellite.

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