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Tests involving growing chickpea plants in lunar regolith treated with vermicompost and fungi yielded harvestable crops — but ...

Scientists have successfully grown chickpeas in simulated lunar soil, using a combination of fungi and compost, potentially paving the way for future lunar agriculture.

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