Purple Plants that Report Pollutants
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 3, 2026, 2:14 p.m.
... above. A trained machine learning algorithm was able to detect anthocyanin even when it was not obvious...could equip plants with a way to warn us about concerning growing conditions?
That was the goal of Dmitri...purple when they detect a specific molecule. By combining this approach with receptors for problematic ligands...Center.
The plants’ purple comes from an anthocyanin, an endogenous pigment typically produced as ...identified the genes required to activate the anthocyanin synthetic pathway and assembled them into a synthetic...