GMU:Bioelectronics, aesthetics and other interesting things/Andreas Beyer

Plant Communication / Modular Bio Circuits

There is several evidence of "interfloristic" communication. For example mushrooms in the forests connect the roots of any tree to each other. So that they build a kind of network within the forest. Other Trees are able to communicate via a kind of pheromone to warn other trees while their leaves are eaten by animals. The purpose of my experiments will be to reseach this complex of communication between plants. I want to build a bio circuit with different biological moduls. One example could be to bring in a analog signal to a plant, send it via the roots to a mushroom and then back through another plant to a sensor that is able to translate it back into an analog output. That is the basic idea.