Biology @mander.xyz Daryl76679 @lemmy.ml 2 wk. ago

What a bioluminescent petunia had to teach me

knowablemagazine.org What a bioluminescent petunia had to teach me

I bought a glowing plant. It led me down a rabbit hole of radiant mushrooms, 19th century experiments and a modern rivalry between scientists in Russia and the Americas.

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Have there been experiments with wooded plants or do we know that there won't be glowing forests, because it doesn't work like that or something?
- Bioluminescent ferns bordering a wooded path would be rather magical.
- I don't think you could get wood/bark to fluoresce as it's dead tissue.. in general some tree species are very easy to work with and engineer. Poplar for example
  
  But some parts of the tree must be still living
  
  You could totally get glowing fungus to grow on wood

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