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Forget GMOs, scientists are creating bionic plants

Thursday, March 20, 2014 4:14
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20 March 2014

 - Call it the rise of the nanobionic super-plants: Researchers at MIT are giving plants super powers by placing tiny carbon nanotubes deep within their cells.

Some of the altered plants increased their photosynthetic activity by 30% compared with regular old plants. Others were able to detect tiny traces of pollutants in the air.

And that’s just the beginning.



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