Chickpeas have been successfully grown in simulated lunar soil in a giant leap for off-world farming.
Researchers at the University of Texas and Texas A&M said inhabitants of a lunar base might produce their own food rather than relying entirely on costly supply missions from Earth. The roots were “glued” to nutrients by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The Myles variety of chickpea was grown in soil based on samples brought back by Apollo astronauts.
It is thought that this could be a major breakthrough for future space travel as well as for the plans of a human habitation lunar base.
