Plant Science View on Biohybrid Development
Biohybrid consists of a living organism or cell and at least one engineered component. Designing robot–plant biohybrids is a great challenge: it requires interdisciplinary reconsideration of capabilities intimate specific to the biology of plants. Envisioned advances should improve agricultural/hort...
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| author | Tomasz Skrzypczak Rafał Krela Wojciech Kwiatkowski Shraddha Wadurkar Aleksandra Smoczyńska Przemysław Wojtaszek |
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| description | Biohybrid consists of a living organism or cell and at least one engineered component. Designing robot–plant biohybrids is a great challenge: it requires interdisciplinary reconsideration of capabilities intimate specific to the biology of plants. Envisioned advances should improve agricultural/horticultural/social practice and could open new directions in utilization of plants by humans. Proper biohybrid cooperation depends upon effective communication. During evolution, plants developed many ways to communicate with each other, with animals, and with microorganisms. The most notable examples are: the use of phytohormones, rapid long-distance signaling, gravity, and light perception. These processes can now be intentionally re-shaped to establish plant–robot communication. In this article, we focus on plants physiological and molecular processes that could be used in bio-hybrids. We show phototropism and biomechanics as promising ways of effective communication, resulting in an alteration in plant architecture, and discuss the specifics of plants anatomy, physiology and development with regards to the bio-hybrids. Moreover, we discuss ways how robots could influence plants growth and development and present aims, ideas, and realized projects of plant–robot biohybrids. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8466895a54c64fb5b2b52cbdc525aded2022-12-21T18:49:32ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology2296-41852017-08-01510.3389/fbioe.2017.00046266962Plant Science View on Biohybrid DevelopmentTomasz Skrzypczak0Rafał Krela1Wojciech Kwiatkowski2Shraddha Wadurkar3Aleksandra Smoczyńska4Przemysław Wojtaszek5Faculty of Biology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, PolandFaculty of Biology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, PolandFaculty of Biology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, PolandFaculty of Biology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, PolandFaculty of Biology, Department of Gene Expression, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, PolandFaculty of Biology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, PolandBiohybrid consists of a living organism or cell and at least one engineered component. Designing robot–plant biohybrids is a great challenge: it requires interdisciplinary reconsideration of capabilities intimate specific to the biology of plants. Envisioned advances should improve agricultural/horticultural/social practice and could open new directions in utilization of plants by humans. Proper biohybrid cooperation depends upon effective communication. During evolution, plants developed many ways to communicate with each other, with animals, and with microorganisms. The most notable examples are: the use of phytohormones, rapid long-distance signaling, gravity, and light perception. These processes can now be intentionally re-shaped to establish plant–robot communication. In this article, we focus on plants physiological and molecular processes that could be used in bio-hybrids. We show phototropism and biomechanics as promising ways of effective communication, resulting in an alteration in plant architecture, and discuss the specifics of plants anatomy, physiology and development with regards to the bio-hybrids. Moreover, we discuss ways how robots could influence plants growth and development and present aims, ideas, and realized projects of plant–robot biohybrids.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbioe.2017.00046/fullplants biohybridsplants communicationtropismsbiological modelinglong distance signaling |
| spellingShingle | Tomasz Skrzypczak Rafał Krela Wojciech Kwiatkowski Shraddha Wadurkar Aleksandra Smoczyńska Przemysław Wojtaszek Plant Science View on Biohybrid Development Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology plants biohybrids plants communication tropisms biological modeling long distance signaling |
| title | Plant Science View on Biohybrid Development |
| title_full | Plant Science View on Biohybrid Development |
| title_fullStr | Plant Science View on Biohybrid Development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Plant Science View on Biohybrid Development |
| title_short | Plant Science View on Biohybrid Development |
| title_sort | plant science view on biohybrid development |
| topic | plants biohybrids plants communication tropisms biological modeling long distance signaling |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbioe.2017.00046/full |
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