Engineers create plants that glow

Re:Engineers create plants that glow by ipsum2 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:53PM (#16025783)

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.

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Re:Engineers create plants that glow by slavik81 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @06:43PM (#16026158)

If 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.

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Re:Engineers create plants that glow by wybiral on Thursday December 28, 2017 @07:42PM (#16026503)

Yeah. I just invented a more cost effective method with similar results

/me whips out can of glow-in-the-dark spray paint...

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Re:Engineers create plants that glow by slavik81 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @07:59PM (#16026592)

Too 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.

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Re:Engineers create plants that glow by drvdevd on Thursday December 28, 2017 @06:00PM (#16025841)

also, isn’t luciferase (and other fluorescent/luminescent proteins) now trivially engineered into at least a few common plants?

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Re:Engineers create plants that glow by ipsum2 on Friday December 29, 2017 @03:23AM (#16028373)

Not with any useful amount of brightness yet.

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