The future of agriculture is computerized
Machine learning can reveal optimal growing conditions to maximize taste and other features.
Machine learning can reveal optimal growing conditions to maximize taste and other features.
MIT-led team uses nanoparticles to deliver genes into plant chloroplasts.
Research from the lab of assistant professor of chemistry Gabriela Schlau-Cohen advances the understanding of plants' photosynthetic machinery.
Whitehead Institute and MIT researchers uncover the detailed molecular structure of the sporopollenin polymer, an inert material key for the emergence of land plants.
Illumination from nanobionic plants might one day replace some electrical lighting.
Electronic circuits reveal when a plant begins to experience drought conditions.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering welcomes plant ecologist Dave Des Marais to the MIT faculty.
Study reveals the mechanisms of a protein that helps moss and green algae defend against too much light.
A new event series is bringing greenery to campus in partnership with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
After sensing dangerous chemicals, the carbon-nanotube-enhanced plants send an alert.
MIT researchers study bamboo for engineered building material, similar to plywood.
Nanotechnology could turn shrubbery into supercharged energy producers or sensors for explosives.
Biological structures may help engineers design new materials.
New model predicts maximum tree height across the United States; gives information about forest density, carbon storage.
MIT chemists engineer the periwinkle plant to produce compounds that could become more effective cancer drugs.