With the increased number of space related studies, it has become a significant study field in both dependable and long term biology based life support systems for long term space flights. Plants have been the major focus of this research. The capability of cultivate plants in space can help to provide astronauts with essential nutrients as well as improve their psychological health. Simulating the space environment, detailed gene analysis, and detailed growth analyzes reveal the effects of the space environment on plants. From the first photosynthetic organisms in the sea to today's terrestrial higher plants, they have survived millions of years on the Earth with the power of adaptations and evolution. Therefore, compared to the Earth, in the space environment, plants will react differently to decreased gravity, increased radiation rate, lost light source, and they will have altered stress gene regulation. In this review, which is about the adaptation of plants to the space environment, how plants react when they encounter stressful conditions that cause changes in their structures in the space environment and the results are discussed with various experiments. As a result, with using different plant species, it looks like even though these tiny greens faced with the hard condition in space environment they have shown a resistance mechanism to all these tough environments.
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