Non-gravitational effects on genus penicillium

Conference · Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:147164

Loup, M

In September 1994, Shuttle Orbiter Discovery, STS-64, launched into space. Aboard that shuttle was a payload containing Fungi spores, genus Penicillium. With the over looking help of Dr. Audrey Gabel, Associate Professor of Biology at Black Hills State University, investigations on differing media types began. Basis for this experimentation was to determine if there was any differences between the space exposed spores and control spores. Studies concluded that there were differences and those differences were then recorded. It was hypothesized the spores may have been effected causing differences in growth rate, colony size, depth and margins, coloring, germination, and growth on different media.

• Research Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD (United States). Goddard Space Flight Center
• OSTI ID: 147164
• Report Number(s): N-96-13754; NASA-CP-3310; REPT-95B00118; NAS-1.55:3310; CONF-9509261-; TRN: 9613770
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1995 shuttle small payloads symposium, Baltimore, MD (United States), 25-28 Sep 1995; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of The 1995 Shuttle Small Payloads Symposium; Goldsmith, F.; Mosier, F.L.; PB: 321 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
APPLIED STUDIES
FUNGI
SPACE FLIGHT
BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
PENICILLIUM
GROWTH
SPORES
COLOR
GERMINATION