Scientists create electric circuits inside plants
Stuart Thompson, The Conversation
To do this, we’d need a way of getting the energy out in the form of electricity. The Finnish researchers, whose work is published in PNAS, developed a chemical that was fed into a rose cutting to form a solid material that could carry and store electricity. For the new research, they designed a molecule called ETE-S that forms similar electrical conductors but can also be carried wherever the stream of water travelling though the xylem goes. Credit: Pixabay E-plants How well these electrical networks formed surprised even their developers. But the technology could also help us better understand regular plants.