{"id":19519,"date":"2015-11-23T04:47:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T12:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/worlds-first-cyber-plants-fuse-electronics-with-roses"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:39:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:39:33","slug":"worlds-first-cyber-plants-fuse-electronics-with-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/worlds-first-cyber-plants-fuse-electronics-with-roses","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first cyber-plants fuse electronics with roses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-cyber-plants-fuse-electronics-with-roses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have created analogue and digital electronic circuits inside living plants, using the vascular system of living roses to build \u2013 or rather \u2018grow\u2019 \u2013 the central components of electronic circuits.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Link\u00f6ping University in Sweden merged numerous electrical components inside the roses, including wires, digital logic, and even display-based elements, thanks to a special polymer that\u2019s capable of acting like a wire while still transporting organic material such as water and nutrients through the rose\u2019s stem.<\/p>\n<p>By successfully incorporating electronics into the living systems of plants, it\u2019s hoped we\u2019ll be able to find out much more about the chemical processes and pathways that make them function \u2013 and we could even learn to control and manipulate them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/world-s-first-electronically-augmented-plants-fuse-circuitry-with-roses\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have created analogue and digital electronic circuits inside living plants, using the vascular system of living roses to build \u2013 or rather \u2018grow\u2019 \u2013 the central components of electronic circuits. Researchers at Link\u00f6ping University in Sweden merged numerous electrical components inside the roses, including wires, digital logic, and even display-based [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51291,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519\/revisions\/51291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}