The plants glow by themselves and the underlying biochemistry is entirely novel. The metabolic pathway has been transferred from glowing tropical mushrooms and shows robust performance in a range of plant species. 2/6pic.twitter.com/Fzbe337wrH
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The plants glow by themselves and the underlying biochemistry is entirely novel. The metabolic pathway has been transferred from glowing tropical mushrooms and shows robust performance in a range of plant species. 2/6pic.twitter.com/Fzbe337wrH
Also, check out a parallel study by Arjun Khakhar and colleagues demonstrating the potential of this technology to report gene expression: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/809533v1 … 3/6
The plants are bright enough that they can even be captured on smartphones (well, the best ones). For the plant science community this means that the equipment costs for luminescence imaging can be brought down from ~$100K to under $1K (and the cost of reagents drops to zero) 4/6pic.twitter.com/9SHKzXHqEt
For the rest of us this means that the plants are visible to the naked eye! 5/6pic.twitter.com/eo9UCZ9AaW
Huge thanks to the amazing team at Planta and our collaborators in academia. 6/6pic.twitter.com/GvM6Jk6uio
Would make a nice addition to the kitchen
Wish one could buy one.
We'll have plants on sale in two years from now, subject to passing regulations and confirming they are environmentally safe
First thing crossing my mind is how would a natural ecosystem respond to glow in the dark plants? It looks like a niche open to explore by many night-loving creatures...
The glowing plants are using some of their energy budget to glow, so plants that don't glow would have an advantage (in growth and seed production) over them unless something (like us) kept selecting for the glowing trait.
Have you tested the response to pathogen infiltration? If the response is localized, it could make pre-symptomatic sampling easier. I study Septoria leaf spot on Populus trichocarpa, and it is difficult to tell which part of the leaf is infected before symptoms appear.
We have not properly looked at that, I think it's likely that the plants would respond to pathogen infiltration since light emission depends on the activity of phenylpropanoid metabolism. Happy to collaborate if you find the system useful for your research.
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