Engineers create plants that glow
Illumination from nanobionic plants might one day replace some electrical lighting.
Sensors applied to plant leaves warn of water shortage
Electronic circuits reveal when a plant begins to experience drought conditions.
Finding the root cause of plant resilience
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering welcomes plant ecologist Dave Des Marais to the MIT faculty.
Harnessing the right amount of sunshine
Study reveals the mechanisms of a protein that helps moss and green algae defend against too much light.
Plants for the people
A new event series is bringing greenery to campus in partnership with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives
After sensing dangerous chemicals, the carbon-nanotube-enhanced plants send an alert.
Building up bamboo
MIT researchers study bamboo for engineered building material, similar to plywood.
Bionic plants
Nanotechnology could turn shrubbery into supercharged energy producers or sensors for explosives.
Plants exhibit a wide range of mechanical properties, engineers find
Biological structures may help engineers design new materials.
The tallest tree in the land
New model predicts maximum tree height across the United States; gives information about forest density, carbon storage.
More than just a pretty flower
MIT chemists engineer the periwinkle plant to produce compounds that could become more effective cancer drugs.