Plants That Can Detect The Bom With Changing Colors + Video

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American scientists develop plants that can detect bomb. How, they "teach" the protein crops to change color when there is a specific chemical elements. The application of research results is not that difficult, for example, a plant that can be used around the security gate. When approaching terrorists with explosives, entire plants changed the color to be white.

The Daily Mail reported, the plant was working because the protein receptors in DNA plant naturally respond to stimuli threat by releasing a chemical element named terpenoid to thicken the skin ari leaves, leaves change colors. consequences This research was done by Professor biological University of Colorado, June Medford along the headquarters of the United States armed forces, Pentagon. "The plants can't run or hide from the threat, so that they develop cutting-edge systems to detect and respond to their environment," said Professor Medford.

Researchers designed a computer program to manipulate natural Plant defense mechanism with "taught" reseptornya responds to explosive chemical elements as well as pollutants of air and water pollutants. The redesigned computer receptors are modified so that the function in cell walls of plants so that they can identify pollutants-pollutants or explosives in the air or land nearby. Plants that detect compounds and enable internal signal that causes the loss of the color green and turn it into white foliage.

The ability to detect from these plants is similar even better than dogs. The nature of detection that can be used for any plant and can detect several pollutants simultaneously. Professor Medford and his team have recently received a grant three years totaling 7.2 million dollars from the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency to bring their discoveries to the "real world." Research it appeared in the journal PLOS ONE.

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