PLANTS WILL GLOW YOUR HOME:
Scientists are engineering plants that glow as brightly as your typical household lamp. The mix of synthetic biology, genetic sequencing and glowing bacteria promises to produce a new kind of sustainable lighting. The bio-luminescent system consist of protein called luciferase that can break down the fuel to produce light, called luciferin. This process is so efficient that it hardly produces any heat.
That luciferase-luciferin system enables fireflies, fungi and some bacteria to glow. Getting that to happen in plants is fairly complicated so the Glowing Plant team used a prototyping method that relies on an agrobacterium. Although this agrobacterium can inject part of its genome into a plant. Amirav-Drory told that adding bio-luminescence removes energy from cells so these plants will be less adaptable than normal ones in the evolutionary sense.
