For lighting things nearby? Basically useless. For making super fucking cool botanical gardens? Extremely viable. It's also a great exercise in modifying the genes of plants in novel ways, which is in and of itself promising. Consider a plant that produces silk, or a plant that produces a complete protein as a crop, on top of the usual benefits like drought/disease resistance and increased yields.

[–] IranOuttaOil@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Soy

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what if you pergola it

[–] fox@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Go look at the article, there's a video of the plants and you can see how much light they emit

[–] TheFinalCapitalist@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Even if they dont give off great light, the aesthetics of a well cared for garden with glowing plants highlighting a path during dusk/night would be so fuckin cool

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

They keep mentioning fertilizer in the article I assume they need a lot