Goodbye deforestation!
and despite all the efforts that environmentalists have been putting in to prevent deforestation activities, it is expected to cross theWell, not yet because there is a new solution that promises an end to our need of cutting trees. A team of researchers at MIT claims thatcan replace deforestation driving products made from real wood.
to normal plant cells. They extracted cells from the leaves of a flowering plant called Common zinnia and then stored the same in a liquid medium for a couple of days. In the next step, the researchers treated the plant cells with a gel-based medium enriched with nutrients and hormones. After some time, the cells gave rise to new plant cells. The researchers also noticed that by changing the hormonal concentration in the gel medium, they could control the physical and mechanical properties of the newly grown cells. During the experiments, plant material that contained high hormone concentrations turned stiff.
“In the human body, you have hormones that determine how your cells develop and how certain traits emerge. In the same way, by changing the hormone concentrations in the nutrient broth, the plant cells respond differently. Just by manipulating these tiny chemical quantities, we can elicit pretty dramatic changes in terms of the physical outcomes,” lead researcher Ashley Beckwith said, explaining the role of hormones in plant cell growth.
“Though still in its early days, this research demonstrates that lab-grown plant materials can be tuned to have specific characteristics, which could someday enable researchers to grow wood products with the exact features needed for a particular application,” senior author and scientist Luis Fernando Velásquez-García claims.. This massive deforestation is the root cause of many climate change-driven problems our world is facing at the moment.
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