linkedin post 2020-11-16 05:35:05

EMAIL ALERTS FROM PLANTS. “MIT engineers recently accomplished this, allowing a spinach plant to send an email to a smartphone when it encountered nitroaromatics—chemical compounds found in many types of explosives. The plants roots picked up this compound, which was sent to the leaves, where nanotube sensors triggered a signal.”

http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/we-have-overcome-the-plant-animal-communication-barrier-mit-professor-claims

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