Abstract EANA2025-26

Agriculture is one of the disciplines that has enhanced the progress of humanity, and that could promote its development in environments other than the Earth. This study wants to contribute to the challenges that NASA's ARTEMIS program is currently seeking to solve in its end goal to establish a lunar base, specifically those related to the growth of food with in-situ resources. However, there are many challenges for the plants to achieve its development in inorganic substrates and be able to produce fresh food. Likewise, the addition of organic matter and nutrients necessary for plant growth and development should be carried out. Wamelink argue that for humans to establish themselves on other planetary bodies, they will have to use materials found on those bodies. Therefore, the aim of the experiment was to evaluate the physiological behavior of tomato seedlings Solanum lycopersicum L. var cerasiforme, planted in a substrate that simulates lunar regolith.