Co-author Julia Riedl, Louis' student at the time, set off to investigate using a routine technique in biology research: gel electrophoresis, which uses an electric field to push molecules through ...

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"The question we wanted to answer was how much potential it can produce, and how is electric potential influenced by the plant's biological clock?" To find out, the authors inserted electrodes ...