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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. Got a minute?
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2 ."We have the technology.
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3 .We have the capability to make the world's first bionic" plant!
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4 .Engineered bionic plants that harvest even more energy from the sun, or detect pollutants or explosives, could become a reality.
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5 .That's according to a study in the journal Nature Materials.
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6 .M.I.T.researchers say that plants are a great technology platform: they can survive harsh weather and they are their own energy factories.
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7 .So the team turned to improving plants' capabilities.
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8 .They inserted carbon nanotubes into the plants' chloroplasts, the site of photosynthesis.
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9 .The tubes capture wavelengths of light that plants usually don't absorb, such as ultraviolet and green.
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10 .Living plants with nanotube-enhanced chloroplasts showed a 30 percent increase in electron flow, a key aspect of photosynthesis.
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11 .No word yet on any subsequent increase in actual sugar production.
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12 .The researchers turned plants into sensors by embedding carbon nanotubes that were engineered to fluoresce in response to nitric oxide, a pollutant from combustion.
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13 .They've also created nanotubes that can detect chemicals including TNT and the nerve gas sarin.
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14 .Pollution, pesticides and explosives could someday be monitored via bionic botanicals.
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15 ."Better. Stronger. Faster."
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16 .Well, maybe not faster.
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17 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.
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