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On plant roots logical gates

Emerging Technologies 2016-10-17 v1

Abstract

Theoretical constructs of logical gates implemented with plant roots are morphological computing asynchronous devices. Values of Boolean variables are represented by plant roots. A presence of a plant root at a given site symbolises the logical {\sc True}, an absence the logical {\sc False}. Logical functions are calculated via interaction between roots. Two types of two-inputs-two-outputs gates are proposed: a gate x,yxy,x+y\langle x, y \rangle \rightarrow \langle xy, x+y \rangle where root apexes are guided by gravity and a gate x,yxy,x\langle x, y \rangle \rightarrow \langle \overline{x}y, x \rangle where root apexes are guided by humidity. We propose a design of binary half-adder based on the gates.

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@article{arxiv.1610.04602,
  title  = {On plant roots logical gates},
  author = {Andrew Adamatzky and Georgios Sirakoulis and Genaro J. Martinez and Frantisek Baluska and Stefano Mancuso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.04602},
  year   = {2016}
}
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