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 a dress 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 a dress 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.