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Space Horticulture Lab
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A lab that explores how plants respond to gravity and ultraviolet light in order to grow plants in space.
AboutAbout the lab
Growing plants in space.
The Space Horticulture Lab conducts research on growing plants in the space environment.
For people to stay on the Moon or Mars for long periods, technology to grow plants outside Earth as a source of oxygen and food is essential.
The lab studies how plants respond to environments very different from those on the ground, such as microgravity, space radiation, and ultraviolet light, and aims to develop cultivars useful for stable food production.
The results also form a foundation for technologies for sustainable food production on Earth.
Key terms
- Microgravity
- A state in which almost no gravity is felt, as inside a space station
- International Space Station
- A crewed experimental facility that orbits Earth and is jointly operated by multiple countries
- Cultivar
- A group within the same crop that is distinguished by differences in how it grows or its traits. New cultivars are created through breeding
NewsLab news
A researcher received the Excellent Presentation Award and the Encouragement Award at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Tohoku Botanical Society
A doctoral student received the Best Presentation Award at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Biological Sciences in Space
Samples from plant experiments on the International Space Station returned to Earth
Project Professor Takahashi's bulletin paper "From Plant Gravitational and Space Biology toward Space Horticulture Research" has been published
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies traits useful for cultivating plants in the space environment, and how plants respond to that environment. It also conducts space experiments on the International Space Station.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Space Horticulture Lab are faculty, project researchers, administrative assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Project ProfessorHideyuki Takahashi
- Project ProfessorJun Hidema
- Project Assistant ProfessorHaruka Kondo
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Genetically modified, extemely dwarf tomato plants grow aboard the International Space Station (iss073e0031528)” NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Plants and Cultivars Suited to the Space Environment: “ISS-46 Zinnia flowers in the Veggie facility” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
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