Not sure I would build with Zinnia Elegans, but assume that's a test plant. Fascinating direction.
Toward Customizable Timber, Grown in a Lab
MIT News, Adam Zewe, May 25, 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a way to cultivate wood-like plant material in a laboratory through the use of three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting to tailor its shape and size. The researchers extract cells from the leaves of young Zinnia elegans plants, and cultures them in liquid and gel-based media; adjusting hormone levels tunes the cells’ physical and mechanical properties. The researchers feed a customizable computer-aided design file to a 3D bioprinter, which deposits the gel culture in a specific configuration. MIT's Jeffrey Borenstein said the research "demonstrates the power that a technology at the interface between engineering and biology can bring to bear on an environmental challenge, leveraging advances originally developed for healthcare applications."
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