Scientists from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology engineered a plant nanobionic optical sensor that can detect and monitor, in real time, levels of arsenic in the underground environment.
Drug-sniffing dogs are an accepted part of our modern world. In the near future, could pollution-sniffing mosses be equally common? Although plants seem inactive compared to animals, a team led by Dr. Xingcai Qin, a chemist at Nanjing University, China, has shown that a common species of moss rapidl... Read more
There may come a day when certain plants in your workplace suddenly turn white, at which point everyone will run screaming from the building – those co-workers will have been right to do so, as the white plants indicated that a toxic gas was present. Before that scenario can take place, a littleâ€... Read more
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You don’t need GM for this. But some proper solution is needed, this article gives an insight on some recent developments https://news.mit.edu/2020/plant-nanobionic-sensor-monitor-arsenic-levels-soil-1213
And BLUE moss to tell you about your air
Found the article I read years ago about this, but it looks like the idea died before it caught on.