MIT: Nanosensor Can Alert a Smartphone When Plants are Stressed
April 16, 2020
April 16, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 16 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on April 15:
MIT engineers have developed a way to closely track how plants respond to stresses such as injury, infection, and light damage, using sensors made of carbon nanotubes. These sensors can be embedded in plant leaves, where they report on hydrogen peroxide signaling waves.
Plants use hydrogen peroxide to communicate within their leaves, sending out a distr . . .
MIT engineers have developed a way to closely track how plants respond to stresses such as injury, infection, and light damage, using sensors made of carbon nanotubes. These sensors can be embedded in plant leaves, where they report on hydrogen peroxide signaling waves.
Plants use hydrogen peroxide to communicate within their leaves, sending out a distr . . .