they will further cultivate them until they finally develop an improved variety that can meet the needs of farmers and has obvious effects. _125983605_a3fb7906-7c56-405c-9b8d-54a2c Photo Credit: Getty Images / BBC News The European Space Agency has also experimented with growing vegetables in space.
However, although China's space mutagenesis technology leads the world today, China is not the first country to conduct space breeding phone database experiments. The first scientists to start this technology were scientists from the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1975, scientists from the two countries conducted the first space mutagenesis experiments using carrot cells that were taken into Earth orbit by the Soviet Cosmos 782 satellite.
This experimental approach relies on the same principles that induce genetic mutations with nuclear radiation, which began in the late 1920s. Nuclear radiation mutagenesis refers to exposing living organisms to nuclear radiation to accelerate the natural mutation process of the living organism's DNA.