Space Plants in a BRIC.

NASA Commentator Lori Meggs at the Marshall Space Flight Center talks with Sarah Swanson, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has grown plants on the International Space Station inside a unique container called a BRIC – Biological Research in Canister. The experimenters hope that what they learn from the BRIC experiment can be used to help plants cope with the physical realities of a microgravity environment, where the lack of buoyancy-driven convection can cause low-oxygen conditions around the plant which impede its growth.