Glowing Plants Now Up For Auction

In Light / In Dark Bioglow St. Louis-based biotech company Bioglow has put 20 of its light-emitting plants up for auction. First off, here's where you can bid. The plant, called Starlight Avatar, glows blue-green throughout its life cycle, but lives only for two to three months. To create the plants, Bioglow added genes from bioluminescent marine bacteria to the chloroplast genome of an ornamental species of tobacco called Nicotiana alata. Back in 2010, Bioglow scientists published a description...