{"id":807,"date":"2019-02-21T22:53:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/?p=807"},"modified":"2020-12-22T01:15:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T01:15:29","slug":"sending-nematodes-to-space-to-improve-crops-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/sending-nematodes-to-space-to-improve-crops-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Sending Nematodes to Space to Improve Crops on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6><strong>ISS360: THE ISS NATIONAL LAB BLOG<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.issnationallab.org\/blog\/sending-nematodes-to-space-to-improve-crops-on-earth\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-217 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/issnl-full-logo-300-300x96.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a>Nematodes will head to the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab to help improve insect pest control in crops back on the ground. Yesterday, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/news-events\/news\/research-news\/2019\/starship-nematode\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States Department of Agriculture announced<\/a>\u00a0a collaboration with biotechnology startup\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pheronym.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pheronym<\/a>\u00a0to send nematodes (microscopic roundworms) to the ISS as part of an investigation focused on environmentally friendly agricultural pest control. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.issnationallab.org\/blog\/sending-nematodes-to-space-to-improve-crops-on-earth\/\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To stay up to date on this exciting experiment,\u00a0follow space worm @AstroNematode on social media (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/astronematode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AstroNematode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/astronematode\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISS360: THE ISS NATIONAL LAB BLOG Nematodes will head to the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab to help improve insect pest control in crops back on the ground. Yesterday, the\u00a0United States Department of Agriculture announced\u00a0a collaboration with biotechnology startup\u00a0Pheronym\u00a0to send nematodes (microscopic roundworms) to the ISS as part of an investigation focused on environmentally friendly agricultural pest control. Keep Reading To stay up to date on this exciting experiment,\u00a0follow space worm @AstroNematode on social media (Twitter,\u00a0Facebook,\u00a0Instagram, and\u00a0LinkedIn)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paA1aV-d1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4410,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/4410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}