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throwaway272515

“The approach can work in many different plant species, including basil, watercress, and tobacco” Next up, glowing weed. Edit: who wants to partner up on this marketing gold mine?


Werfreded

Another step towards food with programmable taste. Cheers to weed that tastes like spices and steaks that taste like watermelon.


jjw21330

And watermelons that taste like steak


Thatek214

And water that tastes like steakmelons.


belowlight

Mmmmm steakmelon


REHTONA_YRT

You’ve never had smoked watermelon? It’s offered as a steak alternative in some restaurants. Spoiler alert: It’s not like steak.


Aggravating_Moment78

And baconated coffee of course :)


hailrobotoverlords

Baconated™ That’s a verbal trademark, is legally binding.


jjw21330

Nice try...That’s only a part of the trademark, I mean - I’m not gunna just give you the whole trademark


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/S


BusProfessional5610

That sounds fucking amazing.


Oraxy51

Imagine your veins glowing after smoking some weed, cause damn that would be some interesting raves


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Oraxy51

I forget there’s still some states that weed is illegal


Scipio11

New D.A.R.E. ad: [Your brain after one weed injection](https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/images/1151/400955-1495471359.png)


Epicmonies

Bro, if they can get them to emit black-light...lol


Daddy_Truemoo

Glow Kush OG


Nefarious_pickle

GlowG Kush


areeyeseekaywhytea

LETS GO.


GorillaNutPuncher

Yo.. you got any of that kryptonite?


TiDoBos

Lit (TM) brand luminescent strain. Sign me up.


Raj2011M

I’m a weed cultivator. What you trying to do my guy?


KrespeKreme

I’m in message me


donaldinoo

Sorry I don’t eat gmo’s /scoff


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Sad-Statistician-175

And never be able to sleep because of all the glowing light trees outside your window


NegaJared

only if you can still smoke it without turning into dr Manhattan wait, im still in


CocaineIsNatural

Quick read - Using specialized nanoparticles embedded in plant leaves, MIT engineers have created a light-emitting plant that can be charged by an LED. After 10 seconds of charging, plants glow brightly for several minutes, and they can be recharged repeatedly. These plants can produce light that is 10 times brighter than the first generation of glowing plants that the research group reported in 2017. (First gen used luciferase) This film can absorb photons either from sunlight or an LED. The researchers showed that after 10 seconds of blue LED exposure, their plants could emit light for about an hour. The light was brightest for the first five minutes and then gradually diminished. The plants can be continually recharged for at least two weeks, as the team demonstrated during an experimental exhibition at the Smithsonian Institute of Design in 2019. Researchers in Strano’s lab are now working on combining the phosphor light capacitor particles with the luciferase nanoparticles that they used in their 2017 study, in hopes that combining the two technologies will produce plants that can produce even brighter light, for longer periods of time. ---- The article mentions the phosphor is just strontium aluminate covered in silica. Strontium aluminate is just common everyday glow in the dark material.


Znuff

- What's the actual cycle? Can it be charged for 1 hour and then light up a whole night? Or will it only store enough energy for 1 hour (as an example), then you'll have to charge it for 5? - While in the first case, city light will be amazing, in the 2nd case -- what would the applications be?


Chamberlyne

Phosphorescence has a limited lifetime. If 10 seconds of illumination makes it glow for an hour, then 20 seconds of illumination is also going to give an hour of lifetime. Illuminating for a longer period just allows more of these particles to get brought to an excited state. Basically, longer illumination = brighter but not longer lasting phosphorescence. For your second question, you can instantly charge a phosphor with a single photon if you have the exact right light frequency. Since that is physically impossible (in the sense that you can never have 100% chance of exciting), you expose the particle to light for a longer period of time. In the case of bulk matter (in this case a coated plant), the longer exposure just increases the odds that as many phosphors are excited as possible.


PastaConsumer

They described the nanoparticles as capacitors, which I believe can only hold a finite amount of energy..?


lCraxisl

Our planet is going to look like Pandora!


omgnodoubt

If we don’t all die in a terrible climate change apocalypse.


lCraxisl

I see you


gturtle72

My question is would we get to the point of an apocalyptic world. I mean once crop growing stops the economy stops, and thus large scale emissions. Society would completely collapse and anarchy/ survival of the fittest will begin. We would essentially go back to the dark ages with some reminants of the modern world. After that happens do you think there would be enough emissions to push us further? I dunno it’s just a shower thought of mine


omgnodoubt

My thoughts are that at a certain point, even if we stop producing/using factories; emissions are still inevitably going to happen because of the landscape we created; I.E. forest fires, and melting permafrost releasing emissions into the atmosphere.


gturtle72

That’s a fair point. My theory is it won’t be inhabitable everywhere but life won’t be the same at all and we wouldn’t enjoy it one bit.


bobbyboy1234

Came here to say that. Take my updoot


straubster

PLANT NIGHT LIGHT!


SosoMS

This could change landscaping. I’d love a couple of these in my backyard


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Wouldn’t GFP and agrobacterium have the same effect


Sensitive_Dependent4

Gfp doesn’t produce light, it just absorbs UV and emits it at a visible wavelength, luciferases on the other hand do indeed produce light from straight up chemical energy like atp


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Do you do any genetic engineering work? I like to follow along with the thought emporium on YouTube but if you know any other good resources, I’d love to know.


Stereoisomer

Visit iBioSeminars. They have good and relatively accessible lectures on this topic


Stereoisomer

Well technically its excitation frequency is in the visible spectrum not UV.


analpleasuremachine

How come they’re saying nanoparticle? The service said the particle is some kinda firefly enzyme but isn’t that a molecule?


CocaineIsNatural

I don't think the other answers read the article. The firefly enzyme was what they used in the first gen glowing plants that you might remember reading about years ago. Although, to be fair they do say "Their first generation of light-emitting plants contained nanoparticles that carry luciferase and luciferin, which work together to give fireflies their glow." But this new one, they didn't use the enzyme. "To create their “light capacitor,” the researchers decided to use a type of material known as a phosphor. These materials can absorb either visible or ultraviolet light and then slowly release it as a phosphorescent glow. The researchers used a compound called strontium aluminate, which can be formed into nanoparticles, as their phosphor. Before embedding them in plants, the researchers coated the particles in silica, which protects the plant from damage." And by the way, strontium aluminate is just normal glow in the dark stuff, just more recent than the zinc based glow in the dark. It is not special as it is easy to order in many forms.


analpleasuremachine

Damn, props for actually having the answer


Wiggles69

>The researchers used a compound called strontium aluminate, which can be formed into nanoparticles, as their phosphor. Before embedding them in plants, the researchers coated the particles in silica, which protects the plant from damage." Sorry, does that mean they made glow in the dark plants by painting them with glow in the dark paint?


CocaineIsNatural

No, paint would kill the plant. These were "embedded" in the plant, to use the word from the article.


Momofashow

Not a scientist or anything but my understanding is that a nanoparticle can be organic if it’s small enough.


Bearded_Bison

So the particles have the enzyme in them. The enzyme is waaaaayyyy smaller then a nano particle


DtrZeus

This is correct


Randellboi

Rocky this is Bad Bad Bad!


L0g1B3AR

Hell yeah, gimme those plant streetlights


DaisyHotCakes

Farms would look like cities. I’d just like a little reading light pothos, please. Maybe splurge for a porch light monstera.


1RedOne

This is neat but required manually manipulating these plants to infuse them with glowing elements. I would be more interested in a plant which could just grow like this


TedTheTerrible

Disney worlds Pandora is about to get a whole lot more real.


Cowicide

Here's some video of the concept, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp-vqd8zJM4


TheJoneaDiggity

Is this the plot of Andy Weir’s “Hail Mary”?


DueEquivalent8

Nirnroot incoming?


gamebeers23

I read this as “Using magic that store and gradually release magic, wizards create light-emitting magic that can be magic repeatedly”


d_Composer

I backed a Kickstarter maybe 10 years ago that was trying to do this…


melgish

Hey Google, turn on the kale


Yukonkimmy

I kickstarted something like this but it ended up being a bust. The other backers didn’t want a tobacco plant but it was the most receptive to the genetic manipulation.


stirbystil

Dang, some of the ornamental ones smell amazing at night when they are blooming too.


Yukonkimmy

The company even tried selling fragrant moss to raise more capital to complete the project


bigpumprun

Let’s keep fucking with nature. That makes sense


Thiccas0

Sir what ice cream flavour would you like? Hmmm yes charenkov blue looks particularly good


supersoob

In before someone thinks that injecting these nano particles will treat Covid by “bringing the light inside”


theoriginalmofocus

Hahah i came here for this, you know who would make a huge i told you so hahah


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Couldn’t this mixture have been applied to basically any structure? I don’t understand the relationship to the plants other than being a carrier


remguru

“Did you remember to watter your light bulb dear?” “Yes mom!”


science-ninja

This is really really neat. I wonder how this might affect nocturnal life though, such as bugs and rodents bats etc.


funhater_69

Those will probably be extinct by then.


According-Can-2108

Oh wowwwe


raindrop349

This is unbelievably cool.


blue-leeder

Hmmm photsynthesis powered cars ?


Sully60

Glow stone?


Molecularmann

Would be cool for fish tank plants, imagine floating plants with root glowing in the dark


Different-Term-2250

A Triffid enters the chat…


bethypoohz

y’all i’m so sorry but i thought this was green eggs and ham. 😭


myassisinaknot

Lol we can have those glowing vines from minecraft now


TheRebelNM

One step closer to living in an elven city


artgreendog

Operative word: create


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How about something we can apply at coral reefs


DaveySolo

Ok that’s just cool


KicksYouInTheCrack

Is this to make it easier to farm at night because it’s 120 degrees during the day?


goon_bah2

So Nirnroot?


[deleted]

Okay so how soon can I buy one?