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Earth plants, if taken to Mars, would have to tolerate conditions that would cause them a great deal of stress -- eventually killing them.
Alternating severe heat and cold, dry air, plus drought, a low air pressure composed of different gases, as well as grow in soils that they didn't evolve in.
Our Scientists believe they can develop plants that can live upon Mars incredibly hostile enviroment, by inserting Extremophile genes into them.
My thoughts**
Another words compress a million years of plant evolution into just a few days. If succesful it might turn out to be one of the greatest benefits
to mankind that Science has ever produced?
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/05aug_nostress.htm?list111547

7 torr of pressure, sustained temps below 0 C, full solar UV, utter desiccation... yeah, that might put off my blue throatworts.

NASA and others have been screwing around with "Mars jars" for three decades. The research has been no less successful that Project Head Start.

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OK, so NASA cobbles together a Franken-lettuce with genes from lichens, extremophiles, xerophiles, cryophiles, halophiles, Deinococcus radiodurans, Triffids, crab grass, cholla and such. Why will this be a good thing, as opposed to a fast-growing lignin-rich tree for lumber or lysine-rich corn that are bad things?

You could solve the world's hunger with a Caltech undergrad summer gene-gineering project, BUT IT WOULD BE WRONG.

Seems appropriate. NASA's got a lot of experience working with vegetables:-)

ROTFL :p

Earth plants, if taken to Mars, would have to tolerate conditions that would cause them a great deal of stress -- eventually killing them.
REP: Sadly the shuttle isnt working properly.. and it will be bad business idea for hundreds of years to come ...
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Our Scientists believe they can develop plants that can live upon Mars incredibly hostile enviroment, by inserting Extremophile genes into them.
REP:We can even put humans which turn into monkeys there. Thats not what we want ...Any bilogical effort should bring in extreme inteligence or utility for us Earthians in order to execute the project with some sensible objective.
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Another words compress a million years of plant evolution into just a few days. If succesful it might turn out to be one of the greatest benefits
to mankind that Science has ever produced?
REP: Thats called implanting and not evolution...As discussed earlier Evolution is a process in which the object changes itself to suit their evironment. No one engineers them.
But if disagree with me then you will have agree that non-linear evolution is 100% possible and I feel we are evolving non-linearly and linearly...

Wouldn't it be simpler just to grow the plants in greenhouses. Seems to work quite well here on earth- even allows you to grow tropical plants in places with snow on the ground

Daniel

TERRAFORMING MARS!!! with NASA Franken-lettuce, with research contracts let to 38 states to buy votes. The eventual seeder will crash into Mars at full velocity, but that is OK - everything aboard was radiation-sterilized during the trip by pesky solar flares. It's nobody's fault, and all those delicious $billions simply vanished without an audit.

Before terraforming Mars the Space Agency must improve the Vehicle.. more than billions I care about the environment.