Bioluminscent trees could light up our streets
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s team who have conceptualized smart, interactive highways and parks that remove smog particles -- are turning their attention to bioluminescent jellies and bacteria.
By merging their light producing compound with plants, the team envisions illuminating city streets with trees that glow at night.
A University of Cambridge team modified genetic material from fireflies and the luminescent bacterium Vibrio fischeri to boost the production of light-yielding enzymes that can ultimately be inserted into genomes they called it BioBricks .
A Kickstarter campaign for glowing plants using no electricity was funded just last year.
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bioluminscent-trees-could-light-our-streets
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s team
By merging their light producing compound with plants, the team envisions illuminating city streets with trees that glow at night.
A University of Cambridge team modified genetic material from fireflies and the luminescent bacterium Vibrio fischeri to boost the production of light-yielding enzymes that can ultimately be inserted into genomes
A Kickstarter campaign for glowing plants using no electricity was funded just last year.
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bioluminscent-trees-could-light-our-streets
