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4.  The simulator is a transparent- walled tubular frame-work with a temperature and humidity sensor and control system.  This monitors the humidity and the temperature around the plant being observed.

5.  Incorporation of past weather records to simulate past climate and, therefore the past yield in the test plant.  Using oxygen and carbon dioxide deprivation tanks to push the plant to the extremes, mimicking the conditions it will experience in micro/zero gravity situations.  Soil moisture and pH sensor and active moisture control.

6.  The fact that this simulator can change the plant’s environmental variables opens up a load of prospects.  Can be used to test plants’ breaking points at extremes, predict its growth and profit rate in new regions previously unexplored – terrestrial or extra-terrestrial, and to determine when the plant will thrive, among many other applications

11.  Temperature  Soil toxicity  Oxygen content  Nitrogen content  Soil moisture  Humidity  Plant infections  Growth rate can be sensed and controlled In later developments. So in other words, “People anywhere in the universe can use this technology to simulate and grow plants.“