2024/08/12

Ecologist Scoffs at Glow-in-the-Dark ‘Firefly’ Petunia

● 12/08/2024
“Why would we put time, money, and potential risk into making something glow for fun?”
– Ecologist Elsa Youngsteadt, dismissing the glow-in-the-dark ‘Firefly’ Petunia as frivilous. More curious, journalist Rachel Ehrenberg chronicles efforts to transplant the genes responsible for bioluminescence in certain fungi species into plants.
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