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.
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.
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.