While this all sounds pretty out there, consider the possibilities: plants grown in a controlled environment, effectively sealed from contaminants that frequently pervade crops from both the air and the ground, would be 100percentt organic and pesticide-free.
In addition to other possibilities, plants thriving in extreme environments may achieve protection by constitutive activation of stress-related gene networks.
It is just an intriguing thought, better than the possibilities planted in the rumors involving Glen Sather and Colin Campbell.
The possibility of plants (and relevant plant in vitro systems) to serve as 'green cell factories' has increased tremendously in the past years.
While little is known about this possibility in plants, mammalian orthologs of plant subunits encoded by gene families are known to be subject to modification by phosphorylation, SUMOylation, ubiquitination, and arginine methylation [ 52].
To rule out the possibility that plants grown at different times may exhibit different phenotype, we examined LUC signals of rosette leaves from plants that were grown in the same batch.
Instead, the researchers say, they are asking that scientists be open to the possibility that plants may have their own system, perhaps analogous to an animal's nervous system, to transfer information around the body.
"It is a cautionary tale that you have to think about the possibility of plants escaping into populations where there are wild relatives present," said Jay Reichman, an agency ecologist who is the lead author of a study to be published in the journal Molecular Ecology.
Taking this a step further, Arntzen contemplated the possibility that plants could be engineered to produce proteins that would cause the body to produce protective antibodies.
Questions over safety, disposal of waste and the possibility that plants could make material suitable for weapons have slowed the spread of nuclear technology.
