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Chinese Scientists Made Glowing Plants with Firefly DNA to Replace Streetlights
(www.zmescience.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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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.
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what if you pergola it
Go look at the article, there's a video of the plants and you can see how much light they emit