Productivity and nutrition value of leaf vegetables as applied to bioregenerative life-support systems

Productivity, biochemical composition (content of macro- and microelements, photosynthetic pigments, phenolic compounds, ascorbic acid) and antioxidant activity of leaf vegetables cultivated under similar to the bioregenerative lifesupport systems conditions are studied. Plants accumulated from 6 to 45 kg/м2 of edible biomass and were characterized by high biological value. Our results indicate the perspectivity of use of leaf vegetables in structure of the photosynthetic unit of the bioregenerative life-support systems for supply of human by functional diet