Re: [DIYbio] idea generating related to a MIT news article

OK, these researchers are DARPA funded, but there other beneficial apps for similar approaches:
http://news.mit.edu/2016/nanobionic-spinach-plants-detect-explosives-1031
"Using a technique called vascular infusion, which involves applying a solution of nanoparticles to the underside of the leaf, they placed the sensors into a leaf layer known as the mesophyll, which is where most photosynthesis takes place."

I've not read the full paper yet, but I bet the infusion is simply letting a water suspension flow in to the leaf pores
without killing the plant.  That turns it into a sensor, since a plant transpiring is a sampling system for groundwater.
Besides being ground water samplers, plants self repair their chloroplasts -- anything based on those could outperform
machines that fade and decay with time.

What sensor/indicators could be gene edited into plants?

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