ISS Update: Plants in Space

NASA Public Affairs Officer Kelly Humphries talks with Camille Alleyne, International Space Station Program Scientist, about the plant research taking place aboard the station. Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul, a research associate professor from the University of Florida, joins the conversation by phone to discuss one of those experiments: the Transgenic Arabidopsis Gene Expression System , or TAGES. TAGES uses genetically engineered plants with reporter genes that “report“ back on the various reactions of the plants b