Research has also shown that plants can be grown in lunar soil. The research was a public/private collaboration between Kent and UK tea plantation, Dartmoor Estate Tea, Lightcurve Films, and Europlanet. The tea plants in the lunar soil simulant took root and grew as well as those in the control group, while plants in simulated Martian soil failed to grow. These experiments reveal that terrestrial plants such as tea may be cultivated in lunar soils within lunar greenhouses, allowing inhabitants of such bases some degree of autonomy and access to fresh food. Physicist Florence Grant carefully assesses how the tea crops fared in the two types of soil, both mars and lunar, in this experiment.