Mycorrhizal Fungi Enable Chickpea Seed Production in Simulated Lunar Regolith Scientists have coaxed chickpeas to full seed production in simulated lunar soil and it took an evolutionary partnership 400 million years in the making to pull it off. For the first time, scientists have grown a food crop to full seed production in simulated lunar regolith. By inoculating chickpea (Cicer arietinum) seeds with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), researchers enabled plants to complete their reproductive cycle in a substrate composed of up to 75% lunar soil simulant.

Scientists grow chickpeas in simulated lunar soil using mycorrhizal fungi, marking a breakthrough toward sustainable agriculture on the Moon
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