'Electronic Plants' Grow Wires Inside Themselves to Form Living Machines

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http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/electronic-plants-grow-wires-inside-themselves-form-living-machines-n467386

Inside most plants is a complex network of cells and pathways that pass water, nutrients and information from the roots to the leaves and everywhere in-between. Eager to take advantage of this "vascular circuitry," researchers at Linköping University in Sweden managed to get the plant to essentially grow conductive wires inside itself that could one day provide a communication or power system for electronics.