Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Scientists in Sweden have created bionic roses, merging transistors and electrodes into the plant's vascular systems, creating a living organism that can sense and display environmental changes, and a lot more.

Researchers, under the direction of Professor Magnus Berggren at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE), at Linköping University in Sweden have created analog and digital electronic circuits inside living plants.

The team wasn't trying to create a race of higher plants that would one day enslave the human race, though. Instead, the researchers are looking at creating plants that can detect changes in temperature or the environment, such as drought, or crops whose growth can be accelerated or slowed down with the flick of a switch. These and other applications are possible, say the researchers.Inquisitr reporting the details of this incredible creation were published Friday in the journal Science Advances.