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I've wanted to do this since I saw a picture of a glowing tobacco plant in my biology textbook back in 1995. I've since done quite a bit of research on it, and

by craigyk 12y ago

I've wanted to do this since I saw a picture of a glowing tobacco plant in my biology textbook back in 1995. I've since done quite a bit of research on it, and there are some pretty serious obstacles. I assume you want to use luciferase... are you going to insert the whole enzymatic pathway? or sell "glowing plant fuel"? How do you get around the fact that this uses quite a bit of the plant's energy? Are you planning on attaching promoters that hack into the plant's day/night cycle? or seasonal changes?

Alex3917 12y ago
For what it's worth, it's trivially easy to grow your own bioluminescent fungi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bioluminescent_fungi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bioluminescent_fungi They don't last as long as the plants, but if you get the right ones then you can eat them once you're done.