PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Stavrinidou, Eleni
AU  - Gabrielsson, Roger
AU  - Gomez, Eliot
AU  - Crispin, Xavier
AU  - Nilsson, Ove
AU  - Simon, Daniel T.
AU  - Berggren, Magnus
TI  - Electronic plants
AID  - 10.1126/sciadv.1501136
DP  - 2015 Nov 01
TA  - Science Advances
PG  - e1501136
VI  - 1
IP  - 10
4099  - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/10/e1501136.short
4100  - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/10/e1501136.full
SO  - Sci Adv2015 Nov 01; 1
AB  - The roots, stems, leaves, and vascular circuitry of higher plants are responsible for conveying the chemical signals that regulate growth and functions. From a certain perspective, these features are analogous to the contacts, interconnections, devices, and wires of discrete and integrated electronic circuits. Although many attempts have been made to augment plant function with electroactive materials, plants’ “circuitry” has never been directly merged with electronics. We report analog and digital organic electronic circuits and devices manufactured in living plants. The four key components of a circuit have been achieved using the xylem, leaves, veins, and signals of the plant as the template and integral part of the circuit elements and functions. With integrated and distributed electronics in plants, one can envisage a range of applications including precision recording and regulation of physiology, energy harvesting from photosynthesis, and alternatives to genetic modification for plant optimization.