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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. Got a minute?

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"We have the technology.

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We have the capability to make the world's first bionic" plant!

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Engineered bionic plants that harvest even more energy from the sun, or detect pollutants or explosives, could become a reality.

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That's according to a study in the journal Nature Materials.

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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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So the team turned to improving plants' capabilities.

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They inserted carbon nanotubes into the plants' chloroplasts, the site of photosynthesis.

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The tubes capture wavelengths of light that plants usually don't absorb, such as ultraviolet and green.

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Living plants with nanotube-enhanced chloroplasts showed a 30 percent increase in electron flow, a key aspect of photosynthesis.

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No word yet on any subsequent increase in actual sugar production.

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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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They've also created nanotubes that can detect chemicals including TNT and the nerve gas sarin.

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Pollution, pesticides and explosives could someday be monitored via bionic botanicals.

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"Better. Stronger. Faster."

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Well, maybe not faster.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.

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