Technology is improving day by day and new technologies continue to amaze people by using scientific studies. Here is one of these developments. A team of Russian scientists changed the genes of two species of tobacco plants. Scientists who changed the genes of plants enabled them to emit a brilliant light throughout their life cycle. Glowing plants played with their genes:
According to the news in Futurism, scientists tried to make other plants shine by injecting various chemicals, but only these plants started to show bioluminescence without any intervention. Of course, the main purpose of the researchers here was not only to shine the plants. Scientists want to learn how plants’ metabolism works, and they try to find out by looking at how they react to their external environment. The research team used the fungal bioluminescence system (fungal bioluminescen ce system) to shine the plants. The mushroom bioluminescence system turns a common acid found in all plants into luciferous. The component found in the organism can produce bioluminescence. The light of the plant, produced by researchers, is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, but not strong enough to help you read a book in the dark. The glow effect does not interfere with any natural function of the plant. Of course, these are not the first plants that researchers changed their genes for. Scientists have previously managed to change the genes of petunias and roses. In addition, in their research published in the journal Nature, the researchers used the expressions “Autonomous luminescence can be activated in animals, although caffeic acid is not found in animals”.
