China's space mango test successful
The mangoes came from the Shenzhou 11, a manned space mission that launched in October 2016 and returned the following month. During its 33 days in space, Shenzhou 11 docked at the Tiangong-2 space laboratory and crew members conducted numerous scientific experiments.
One experiment was to grow a new strain of mangoes by a process known as space breeding. Micro-gravity, radiation, sterile conditions and other circumstances unique to space, allow the plant to adapt new genetic traits. This makes it easier for scientists to breed plants with favorable traits such as size, freshness, pesticide and insect resistance and so on.
source: sputniknews.com
