Space Breeding

Lifeasible has established a comprehensive plant breeding platform to provide diverse services to support different customer project needs. The space breeding platform we established optimizes multiple parameters and accelerates customers' plant breeding process.

What Is Space Breeding?

Space is an ultra-vacuum environment exposed to large amounts of cosmic radiation. Beyond the ozone layer, space gradually loses gravity, magnetic field, air, and environmental pressure. Researchers have been devoted to exploring the role of microgravity, cosmic radiation, and other space environments on plant growth and development.

In the special environment of space, plant seeds exposed to cosmic radiation may have undergone strong mutations that could potentially increase yields. In addition, the space environment may affect plant growth and development, and DNA damage and chromosomal aberrations caused by cosmic radiation are major factors in the production of crops with altered genetic polymorphisms and gene combinations. These changes are beneficial in crop breeding, enabling the development of the next generation of crop varieties that will survive under different environmental conditions.

What We Offer

As a leader in plant breeding, Lifeasible offers cutting-edge space breeding technologies that provide unrivaled solutions for sustainable agriculture. Combining cutting-edge technology, innovative research, and years of expertise, our space breeding services accelerate the development of resilient and high-yielding crop varieties.

Our solutions include, but are not limited to:

Plant Breeding Using Microgravity

Microgravity can alter a plant's perception of gravity, changing various physiological processes. Our team of experts carefully design experiments to expose seeds to microgravity conditions and help clients study microgravity-induced molecular and genetic changes to identify new traits for crop improvement.

Plant Breeding Using Cosmic Radiation

Excessive radiation may harm living organisms, but controlled cosmic radiation consisting of energetic particles from outer space may induce genetic variation that confers beneficial traits. We can simulate cosmic radiation and expose plant seeds to this condition to ensure the optimal dose of genetic mutation without compromising plant health. We aim to explore the potential of radiation mutagenesis for crop improvement.

Plant Breeding Using Extreme Temperature Conditions

Space is characterized by extreme temperature variations, including extreme cold and heat. We simulate such temperature extremes to analyze the underlying mechanisms of temperature stress tolerance in plants and to identify genes and pathways that confer resilience to adverse environmental conditions.

Advantages of Space Breeding

Accelerated crop improvement

While traditional breeding methods often take several generations to acquire a desired trait, space breeding can accelerate this process by inducing beneficial mutations within one generation. This allows us to help you develop new crop varieties with improved traits in less time.

Enhanced genetic diversity

Traditional breeding methods often rely on limited genetic diversity within crop populations. Space breeding allows for introducing new genetic variants not normally present in terrestrial populations, yielding a wider range of genetic diversity.

Why Choose Lifeasible?

Our space breeding services utilize the unique conditions of space, including microgravity, cosmic radiation, and extreme temperatures, to accelerate the development of resilient and high-performance crop varieties. This technology offers tremendous potential for sustainable agriculture.

Contact us today to learn more about our space breeding services and gain access to innovative crop varieties.