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This research isn't particularly interesting (imo). The plant doesn't produce any glowing bits (luciferase, luciferin) by itself, but is injected using high pre
by ipsum2 9y ago
This research isn't particularly interesting (imo). The plant doesn't produce any glowing bits (luciferase, luciferin) by itself, but is injected using high pressure. Once the plants lose their glow, they'll need to be injected again.
- drvdevd 9y agoalso, isn’t luciferase (and other fluorescent/luminescent proteins) now trivially engineered into at least a few common plants?
- ipsum2 9y agoNot with any useful amount of brightness yet.
- slavik81 9y agoIf it could be added to the soil rather than injected, that wouldn't be too bad. Maybe you could even mix it with fertilizer to try to offset the extra resources consumed.
- wybiral 9y agoYeah. I just invented a more cost effective method with similar results /me whips out can of glow-in-the-dark spray paint...
- slavik81 9y agoToo late. A few months after that kickstarter launched, I saw some glow-in-the-dark plants at Walmart. I figured someone else had beat them to the punch. Only once I got home did I realize they had been painted.