The world's first covalent organic framework sensors can detect pH changes in living plants, which can provide early warning of drought stress in plants up to 48 hours before traditional methods.

A microneedle-based drug delivery technique for plants that can deliver controlled amounts of agrochemicals to plant tissues could be used to improve crop quality and disease management. The work was developed at SMART, MIT, and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory.

Researchers at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology develop a near-infrared fluorescent nanosensor that simultaneously detects and distinguishes Fe(II) and Fe(III) in living plants.

Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, and their local collaborators from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) as well as the Department of…

Researchers in Singapore have developed the world's smallest LED (light-emitting diode) that enables the conversion of existing mobile phone cameras into high-resolution microscopes. Smaller than the wavelength of light, the new LED was used to build the world's smallest holographic microscope, paving the way for existing cameras in everyday devices such as mobile phones to be converted into microscopes via only…

Researchers across MIT are taking on the agricultural challenges posed by climate change, from engineering plants that sound an alarm when they're under stress to making seeds more resilient to drought.