Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants

Discover how LightBio created bioluminescent petunias using mushroom genes, their plans to start shipping the plants, the process of transferring bioluminescence to plants, the challenges in developing commercially viable glowing plants, the history and challenges of engineering plants to produce light, the Kickstarter campaign, concerns about invasive pests, difficulties in plant bioluminescence, and the plans of lightbio to commercially produce glow-in-the-dark houseplants and the potential impacts on biotechnology and lighting industries.