Nitrogen accountancy in space agriculture.
Journal
NPJ microgravity
ISSN: 2373-8065
Titre abrégé: NPJ Microgravity
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101703605
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
28 Sep 2024
28 Sep 2024
Historique:
received:
01
03
2024
accepted:
27
08
2024
medline:
29
9
2024
pubmed:
29
9
2024
entrez:
28
9
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Food production and pharmaceutical synthesis are posited as essential biotechnologies for facilitating human exploration beyond Earth. These technologies not only offer critical green space and food agency to astronauts but also promise to minimize mass and volume requirements through scalable, modular agriculture within closed-loop systems, offering an advantage over traditional bring-along strategies. Despite these benefits, the prevalent model for evaluating such systems exhibits significant limitations. It lacks comprehensive inventory and mass balance analyses for crop cultivation and life support, and fails to consider the complexities introduced by cultivating multiple crop varieties, which is crucial for enhancing food diversity and nutritional value. Here we expand space agriculture modeling to account for nitrogen dependence across an array of crops and demonstrate our model with experimental fitting of parameters. By adding nitrogen limitations, an extended model can account for potential interruptions in feedstock supply. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis was used to distill key consequential parameters that may be the focus of future experimental efforts.
Identifiants
pubmed: 39341860
doi: 10.1038/s41526-024-00428-x
pii: 10.1038/s41526-024-00428-x
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
90Subventions
Organisme : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ID : NNX17AJ31G
Organisme : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ID : NNX17AJ31G
Organisme : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ID : NNX17AJ31G
Organisme : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ID : NNX17AJ31G
Organisme : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ID : NNX17AJ31G
Organisme : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ID : NNX17AJ31G
Organisme : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ID : NNX17AJ31G
Organisme : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ID : NNX17AJ31G
Organisme : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ID : NNX17AJ31G
Organisme : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ID : NNX17AJ31G
Organisme : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ID : NNX17AJ31G
Organisme : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
ID : NNX17AJ31G
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© 2024. The Author(s).
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