Conceptual design of a bioregenerative life support system containing crops and silkworms

Hu, Enzhu; Барцев, С. И.; Hong, Liu

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2009.11.022

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“…1), all in order from the most to the least acceptable. These species are very well accepted worldwide and especially BM and TM play an important role in research works regarding the future of human nutrition -on Earth and in space (Katayama et al, 2008;Hu et al, 2010;Oonincx et al, 2010;Li et al, 2012). Special place among these species belongs to beebrood (AM), because eating of it seems to be -on the contrary to other mentioned species -nothing unusual (particularly among beekeepers) in the Czech Republic.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Very similar classifi cation was gained by GM and TM modes, the fi rst as a species, which could be consumed by beekeepers and the second as -in the opinion of respondents -"enriches" fl our routinely during commercial processing. Many people seem anthropo-entomophagy and "a poorman's subsistence" as a synonymum (Katayama et al, 2008;Hu et al, 2010), but there are also countries, where the consumption of insects promoted to elite dishes (DeFoliart, 1999;Nonaka, 2009). It depends always on the traditions and perspectives.…”

Section: D) the Inner Attitude Of Respondents To Selected Types Of Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Edible insects - species suitable for entomophagy under condition of Czech Republic

Bednářová¹,

Borkovcová²,

Mlček³

et al. 2013

Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun.

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BEDNÁŘOVÁ MARTINA, BORKOVCOVÁ MARIE, MLČEK JIŘÍ, ROP OTAKAR, ZEMAN LADISLAV: Edible insects -species suitable for entomophagy under condition of Czech Republic. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013, LXI, No. 3, pp. 587-593 Since 2002, when the fi rst lecture on entomophagy took place at Mendel University in Brno, till today, participants of these educational lectures were asked to fi ll questionnaires in order to evaluate interest in entomophagy in Czech Republic and pick suitable species. Analyses of nutritional value of selected species were also performed during this time. The questionnaire was divided into several parts -suitable species, sensory properties, diffi culty of breeding and processing and respondents own attitude to the consumption of insect species. For the purpose of this study the questionnaire was evaluated using the semantic diff erential, so to create a comprehensive picture of each insect species. Based on evaluation of more than 5,000 questionnaires, certain developmental stages of seven species of insect were selected for further evaluation: Tenebrio molitor (TM) larvae, Zophobas morio (ZM) larvae, Gryllus assimillis (GA) nymphs, Locusta migratoria (LM) nymphs, Galleria mellonella (GM) larvae, Bombyx mori (BM) Pupa, Apis mellifera (AM) bee brood, while cockroaches were completely excluded for use in entomophagy. Although they are easy to breed and are available all year-round, consumers showed relatively great disgust. For all of these species, basic nutritional values were analysed, as well as content of amino acids and fattty acids. All parameters were statistically evaluated using ANOVA-1. Each species appears to be suitable for entomophagy for a diff erent reason. Generally speaking, AM, TM and GA were best accepted considering the sensory aspect, nutritional values are interesting especially in BM and GM and TM wins with simplicity of its breeding.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Section: D) the Inner Attitude Of Respondents To Selected Types Of Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Edible insects - species suitable for entomophagy under condition of Czech Republic

Bednářová¹,

Borkovcová²,

Mlček³

et al. 2013

Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun.

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“…; Hu et al . ). Indeed, virtually all scenarios for long‐term habitation of spacecraft and other extraterrestrial structures involve plants, because of the complementary interrelationship with humans: in a simplistic vision, plants recycle human waste and provide nutrients to humans, while humans recycle plant waste and provide nutrients to plants.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…microalgae, higher plants, fish) have been proposed (Krall & Kok 1960;Gros et al 2003). At present, the best-studied and most promising biological regeneration components are microalgae (Hu et al 2012) and higher plants (Gitelson et al 2003;Tikhomirov et al 2003;Hu et al 2010). Indeed, virtually all scenarios for long-term habitation of spacecraft and other extraterrestrial structures involve plants, because of the complementary interrelationship with humans: in a simplistic vision, plants recycle human waste and provide nutrients to humans, while humans recycle plant waste and provide nutrients to plants.…”

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Soilless cultivation of soybean for Bioregenerative Life‐Support Systems: a literature review and the experience of the MELiSSA Project – Food characterisation Phase I

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Higher plants play a key role in Bioregenerative Life-Support Systems (BLSS) for long-term missions in space, by regenerating air through photosynthetic CO2 absorption and O2 emission, recovering water through transpiration and recycling waste products through mineral nutrition. In addition, plants could provide fresh food to integrate into the crew diet and help to preserve astronauts' wellbeing. The ESA programme Micro-Ecological Life-Support System Alternative (MELiSSA) aims to conceive an artificial bioregenerative ecosystem for resources regeneration, based on both microorganisms and higher plants. Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is one of the four candidate species studied for soilless (hydroponic) cultivation in MELiSSA, because of the high nutritional value of the seeds. Within the MELiSSA programme - Food characterisation Phase I, the aim of the research carried out on soybean at the University of Naples was to select the most suitable European cultivars for cultivation in BLSS. In this context, a concise review on the state-of-the-art of soybean cultivation in space-oriented experiments and a summary of research activity for the preliminary theoretical selection and subsequent agronomical evaluation of four cultivars will be presented in this paper.

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“…In this case the stoichiometric approach might be useful (Poughon et al, 1997;Tikhomirov et al, 2003;Farges et al, 2012). For example, the mass exchange of a silkworm unit in BLSS (Hu et al, 2010) …”

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Modeling snail breeding in a bioregenerative life support system

Kovalev¹,

Manukovsky²,

Tikhomirov³

et al. 2015

Life Sciences in Space Research

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Conceptual design of a bioregenerative life support system containing crops and silkworms

Cited by 32 publications

References 52 publications

Edible insects - species suitable for entomophagy under condition of Czech Republic

Edible insects - species suitable for entomophagy under condition of Czech Republic

Soilless cultivation of soybean for Bioregenerative Life‐Support Systems: a literature review and the experience of the MELiSSA Project – Food characterisation Phase I

Modeling snail breeding in a bioregenerative life support system

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