SPINACH can send EMAILS, but not to us

Emailing spinach have been engineered by scientists at MIT using plant bionics, allowing spinach to let you know when there explosive chemicals. Here I discuss how they do this and what is it really capable of.

Really cool technology, but personally, I'll keep holding out hope for the plants that tell me when to water them.

All science discussed in this video is open access, so you can read it if you would like to learn more.

Please do let me know if you have any comments or concerns with anything I've said in the video.

This is a description for the recent media headlines surround the scientific manuscript:
Wong MH, Giraldo JP, Kwak SY, Koman VB, Sinclair R, Lew TT, Bisker G, Liu P, Strano MS. Nitroaromatic detection and infrared communication from wild-type plants using plant nanobionics. Nat Mater. 2017 Feb;16(2):264-272. doi: 10.1038/nmat4771. Epub 2016 Oct 31. PMID: 27798623.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat4771

I used Figure 4A from this manuscript:
Antunes MS, Morey KJ, Smith JJ, Albrecht KD, Bowen TA, Zdunek JK, Troupe JF, Cuneo MJ, Webb CT, Hellinga HW, Medford JI. Programmable ligand detection system in plants through a synthetic signal transduction pathway. PLoS One. 2011 Jan 25;6(1):e16292. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016292. PMID: 21283542; PMCID: PMC3026823.
This is published under a Creative Common License CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Here are the links for the manuscripts referenced in the video:
Genetically Engineered Tobacco:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016292
Earlier Nanomolecule Strano Lab Paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/108/21/8544.long
Plant Infiltration with Nanoparticles: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/nn200629g
Arsenic Sensors: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202005683

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