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'''Plant-based digital data storage''' is a futuristic view that proposes storing digital data in plants and seeds.<ref name="Ferrari">Ferrari, M., C’è un computer in quel faggio, Focus, April 2016, pp. 21–24.</ref><ref name="Oneill">O'Neill, S., I plant memories in seeds, New Scientist, Volume 229, Issue 3056, 16 January 2016, {{doi|10.1016/S0262-4079(16)30130-0}}</ref> The first practical implication showed the possibility of using plants as storage media for digital data. New approaches for data archiving are required due to the constant increase in digital data production and the lack of a capacitive, low maintenance storage medium.

== History ==

The first practical idea about using plants as storage media was proposed by Karin Fister and Iztok Fister Jr. in 2013 when the two were still undergraduate students at the University of Maribor (Slovenia). They wondered where to permanently store all of their digital information on a computer. The two wrote on their website "Why can't we put all the data in the history of mankind in one stone, near spruce or oak...and that was the click."<ref>[http://www.storing-data-into-living-plant.net/experiment Storing data into living plant]</ref> Their first philosophical report that proposed this out-of-the-box-thinking was published in 2014.<ref name='Fister1'>Ljubic, K., Fister Jr., I. How to store Wikipedia into a forest tree: initial idea, Msivism 2014, pp. 45–52. 2014</ref>

== Initial experiments==