A cyborg is a living thing which has electronic parts. At least that’s what the science fiction books tell us. Now scientists are researching ways in which to create a plant which may actually have electronic tissues. Turning the regular plant into a cyborg plant.

Eleni Stavrinidou and her Linköping team have already managed to grow a plant that has a wire going up it’s stem. What’s unusual is not the presence of the wire but the fact that the wire grew inside the plant stem on it’s own. There is naturally a great deal of excitement over this new plant.

Researchers are looking into producing plants that may perhaps work better than the alternatives that Mother Nature has provided us in terms of generating power. Think about the revolution it would create if these cyborg plants could take the sun’s light and convert it right into electrical energy then and there.

It would be the end of the energy crisis as we know it today.  The Linköping team may have started the process off with their science project by getting the wire to grow organically within a plant, but there is a lot more to be done before you will be powering your home with your rose garden.