Precision Delivery of Multi-Scale Payloads to Tissue-Specific Targets in Plants

The invention provides a silk-based biomaterial designed to fabricate a microneedle- like device with controlled degradation rate in planta via tuning material composition and methods of manufacture thereof. The device enables precise access to xylem, phloem, and other plant tissues, thus being capable of serving as delivery tool to release cargo payloads and as sampling tool for analysis of plants fluid.

Researchers

Benedetto Marelli / Yunteng Cao

Departments: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Technology Areas: Agriculture & Food: Delivery / Chemicals & Materials: Catalysis & Synthesis, Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials
Impact Areas: Sustainable Future

  • precision delivery of multi-scale payloads to tissue-specific targets in plants
    United States of America | Published application

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