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What do we do?

We work to Understand Plants and use our Knowledge for Human and Environmental Use.  Another way to say this is we redesign plants for useful purposes.

Lab Develops Plant Sentinels

Professor June Medford in the Department of Biology and her team enabled a computer-designed detection trait to work in a plant by rewiring the plant’s natural signaling process so that a detection incident produces loss of green color. This work – an important step in a long process – could eventually be used for a wide range of applications such as security in airports or monitoring for pollutants such as radon in a basement. MORE

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Plant Sentinel: The Movie

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Colorado State University Biologist Rewires Plants to Detect Pollutants, Explosives

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Prototype Plant Sentinels

Illustration of Plant Sentinel Concept