Trees have plenty of uses beyond wood flooring, and now one company is working to add another: no-emission lighting. The crowd-funded Glowing Plant Project has spliced bioluminescent genes into Arabidopsis plants and hopes one day to light streets with bioluminescent trees. For $50, contributors can receive seeds for a glowing Arabidopsis plant, and for $300, they can get a kit to genetically alter a plant at home.
Trees have plenty of uses beyond wood flooring, and now one company is working to add another: no-emission lighting. The crowd-funded Glowing Plant Project has spliced bioluminescent genes into Arabidopsis plants and hopes one day to light streets with bioluminescent trees. For $50, contributors can receive seeds for a glowing Arabidopsis plant, and for $300, they can get a kit to genetically alter a plant at home.
Below is Glowing Plant's Kickstarter campaign video, which explains the idea and science behind glowing plants:
