<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Very cool! I already want one. <br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Apr 29, 2020, at 10:06 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">People have made glowing plants before but they only glowed dimly and for a short amount of time, but for the first time scientists have used genetic engineering to make a plant that glowed permanently, from the day it sprouted from a seed to the day it died, and it's 10 times brighter than any previous plant so it's easily visible to the naked eye.</font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-0500-9"><font size="4">Plants with genetically encoded autoluminescence</font></a><br></div><div><br></div><font size="4">There already plans to commercialize and offer a range of glowing houseplants, I think they would sell because they really are beautiful, they'd be even better when they have more colors than just green<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span> </font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01K1WlpCAC0&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Timelapse video of incredible glowing plants growing</a><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div></div>
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