What worries me the most is the impact of those as potentially invasive plants. But I guess producing light is energetically costly, so they’d be outcompeted?
Also they look more like ornaments than viable lighting options: the glow from fireflies and funghi isn’t too strong.
Let me introduce you to bio light: https://light.bio/
You can modify native plants in the same way, and yeah of-course they’re gonna have less fitness.
I think people often forget that a lot of the cool / important stuff happens on the molecular level. You can add GFP or whatever to any native species. I’ve been advocating modifying native plants with carboxysomes as way to address climate change for some time – admittedly it’s a not as simple I make it out to be, but it’s definitely in the realm of possibilities.
Dude, this is wicked cool! This is the kinda shit we ought to be doing with biology. As an aspiring bioengineer myself, I fully approve of this, and think Americans should take it as a challenge to make brighter plants. Are we going to let the Chinese out shine us? Probably because our country is full of lawyers who are scared of literally any change.
Y’all seen those people who go out and plant their own plants around the neighborhood without approval? We should have them team up with that chick who crashed the rare plant market by explaining tissue culture and light up our neighborhoods with glowing plants! It would be badass, and we’d build community having people out every night seeing the cool plants.
Let me introduce you to bio light: https://light.bio/
Add solar panels and hydroponics. Infinite energy!
