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August 2026
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Eight Schools Named for Rooibos’s Trip to Space
The South African Rooibos Council has named the eight schools joining its space-seed program, seven of them growing the rooibos seeds sent to the International Space Station.
July 2026
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South Africa’s Rooibos Seeds Are Headed to the International Space Station
The South African Rooibos Council is sending rooibos seeds to the ISS this October, the first indigenous South African species and the first African seeds ever sent to space, to see how six weeks in orbit changes how they grow.
May 2026
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The Fullest Map Yet of What the Red Bush’s Genes Are Doing
University of the Western Cape researchers used long-read sequencing to build the most complete picture yet of which genes rooibos switches on, a step toward breeding bushes that can take a hotter, drier veld.
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