PhD student bioengineers potato plant to detect gamma radiation phys.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from phys.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(KNOXVILLE) In a world when today's technology was science fiction in the not too distant past, the University of Tennessee's Department of Agriculture has developed a plant that detects gamma radiation, providing reliable indications of harmful radiation levels without complex monitoring technologies. Believe it or not it's a "potato plant"!
PhD student Rob Sears engineered the plant, also known as a phytosensor, to indicate high radiation levels through changing leaf fluorescence. When expos .
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