A High Performance, Gravity Insensitive, Enclosed Aeroponic System for Food Production in Space

Aeroponics International (formerly EnviroGen, Inc.)

Berthoud, CO

The Aeroponics Systems allows the growth of plants in an air/mist environment without the use of soil or an aggregate media.

This high performance food production technology will rapidly grow crops using 99% less water and 50% less nutrients in 45% less time.

• Under the SBIR contract Aeroponics International and Bio Serve Space Technologies team completed studies aboard the Mir Space Station in 1998.
• Aeroponics has contributed to advances in root morphology, nutrient uptake, drought and flood stress.
  

• Research results lead to the company commercializing this system as theGenesis Series V Aeroponic Systems.
• The closed-loop aeroponic food production technology now offers government agencies, commercial growers and producers to take advantage of this technology for economical crop production.
• Aeroponics International was the first to commercialize aeroponics in the USA. US Patent granted in 1985, "Methods and Apparatus for Aeroponic Growing of Plants."
• Today the technology is being used by commercial growers and producers.

• The Aeroponic system can be used to produce the various food crops that NASA intends to grow in space.
• "This technology is not subject to weather conditions or the seasons.
• Crops can be planted and harvested year around without interruption.
• It is also an applicable to bio-pharming, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and horticultural crops. It meets BL-3 laboratory specification for biological containment and sanitation.

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