“It’s not unforeseeable that we can 3D-print a plant with all the agronomic features we want,” says Ross Sozzani, a plant biologist at North Carolina State University.

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Three-dimensional printing is being evaluated for its use in engineering plants with desired traits. “Bioprinting” has been a disruptive technology for tissue engineering in animals. It’s not unforeseeable that a plant also could be 3D-printed with various agronomic traits, according to Ross Sozzani, a plant biologist at North Carolina State University.

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Sozzani’s interest in exploring 3D-printing technology led her to Tim Horn, director of research at North Carolina State’s Center for Additive Manufacturing and Logistics. They aren’t printing entire plants. Instead they start with a plant’s stem cells. Those cells develop into roots or shoots and eventually a fully formed plant. Traditional 3D printers construct an object by applying successive […]

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