Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology researchers gear up to study seeds that were sent to space

Seeds of Jyothi and Uma rice varieties, Kanakamani (horse gram), Vellayani Vijay (tomato), Thilakathara (sesame) and Soorya (brinjal/eggplant) were sent to the ISS under the ‘Crop Seeds on ISS’, a project spearheaded by the IIST’s Space Biology Lab.