Woaaaaahhh!! Chickpeas on the moon :O
Lmao we have some extremely scientist quotes: “I’m obsessed with the plant” says fluid dynamicist Sara Oliveira Santos. “It is the worst, it is awful” Jess Atkin on regolith.
So take some regolith, which is awful, and add some tree mycorrhizal fungi which help the taproots branch out and sequester heavy metals away from the plant. The plants were grown in a mixture of regolith-analog, and vermicompost (which is the compost excreted by “red wriggler worms” that eat food waste). It worked! The plants grew, they made fertile seeds, they made chickpeas! They showed signs of stress but like, yesss.
“If they prove safe,” Atikin says “I will be the first one to make some moon hummus.”