First Cyborg Plant

Scientists Unveil the World's First Cyborg Plant

Maddie Stone | November 21, 2015

The concept of “green energy” got a whole lot more literal this week, when scientists announced they’d successfully turned living roses into electronic circuits. That’s right—cyborg flowers are now a thing.
Despite how it sounds, the aim isn’t to create a race of leafy green borg that will one day rise up and enslave their human masters. Instead, think smart plants that can sense and display environmental changes, or crops whose growth can be regulated at the flick of a switch. 

World's first cyborg rose. Source: http://youthindependent.com/worlds-first-cyborg-rose-born-sweden/

<more at http://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-created-a-cyborg-rose-1743933339; related links: http://youthindependent.com/worlds-first-cyborg-rose-born-sweden/ (World's First 'Cyborg Rose' Born in Sweden. November 22, 2015) and http://www.techradar.com/us/news/world-of-tech/the-first-cyborg-plants-have-been-created-in-sweden-1309483 (The first cyborg plants have been created in Sweden. November 23, 2015)>