China Launches Bioforestry Research Using "Space Seeds"

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Gansu province is studying the seeds, that were put in space, hoping to develop drought resistant trees that will improve the environment in the north-west region.

Beijing (XNA) Dec 03, 2004
China has launched its bioforestry research project based on seeds brought back from space in an effort to produce new tree varieties, China Radio International reported on Thursday.

Six kinds of tree seeds were put inside the 20th returnable satellite to monitor their development under the universal radiation, zero gravity, high vacancy, and weak magnetic fields.

Now the forestry department in China's western Gansu province is studying these seeds hoping to develop drought resistant trees that will improve the environment in the north-west region.

The normal cultivation of seed is ten years however the cultivation in space is quicker because the seed is changed genetically.

Only the United States, Russia and China are able to conduct agricultural research in space.

Source: Xinhua News Agency

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Russia Sends Scientist To Jail For Spying

Krasnoyarsk, Russia (UPI) Nov 24, 2004
A Russian court has sentenced a physicist Valentin Danilov to 14 years in a Siberian prison for passing space secrets to China. Danilov, 53, a professor at Krasnoyarsk Technical University in Siberia, was first arrested in 2001 on charges he attempted to sell technology to China based on his work on the effects of the space environment on man-made satellites.

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