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Breakthrough: "Electronic soil" boosts crop growth by over 50% (www.earth.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Breakthrough: "Electronic soil" boosts crop growth by over 50%::This research introduces an innovative approach to soilless cultivation, or hydroponics, by integrating electronic soil, or eSoil.

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Barley seedlings, traditionally not grown in hydroponic systems, exhibited a 50% increase in growth over 15 days when their roots were stimulated electrically using eSoil.

I didn't know barley is such a masochist plant. I wonder if it's just barley being weird, or if other plants also like being (lightly) electrocuted.

[–] LapGoat@pawb.social 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

mushrooms!

https://phys.org/news/2010-04-lightning-mushrooms.html

they arent plants tho.