BioGlow’s plants are the world’s first autoluminescent plants meaning that all the components required for the light emission are produced by the plant itself without the need for UV light or any external chemical applications.
The company has been able to develop the first and brightest autoluminescent plant—a plant that can glow on its own and all you have to add is: water!
The company’s vision is for glowing plants to be used as a clean, sustainable and affordable source of lighting.
BioGlow begins with a common house plant called Nicotiana Alata and by using bioluminescent marine bacteria they are able to modify the plant’s genetics so that its chloroplasts (the part of the plant that turns sunlight into energy) produce light.
BioGlow is calling it “Starlight Avatar” and it produces a soft glow that’s reminiscent of a nightlight. I think it’s amazing!
BioGlow is going even further already! Newer and brighter methods are already being experimented with.
The company would one day make plants a viable way to light parks, sidewalks, roads, and even parts of your home; And I’m looking forward to watering my plants to lower my electric bill.
1627 - Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador
1902 - Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan
1932 - 67th British Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 283 at Prince's England
1939 - MGM cartoon character Barney Bear debuts
1957 - 3rd LPGA Championship won by Louise Suggs
1973 - 19th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills
1657 - James Cragg the Elder, British politician (d. 1721)
1804 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
1914 - Polly Hill, Dr/anthropologist
1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (d. 2006)
1922 - Judy Garland, [Frances Gumm], Minnesota, actress/singer (Wizard of Oz)
1971 - Leanza Cornet, TV host (Entertainment Tonight)
1831 - Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
1946 - Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20
1967 - Spencer Tracy, US actor (7th Cross, Father ot Bride), dies at 67
1985 - Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68
2000 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
2013 - Barbara Vucanovich, American politician, dies at 91
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Menu item found in China.
Life is so much easier and better if you have good looks. There’s a significant correlation between height and salary for guys in the same job with the same qualifications.
When people say “you eat like a bird” respond with “birds actually eat twice their body weight.”
If you were to instantly vanish, there would be a shell of microscopic creatures left behind.
Scientists had to purge Urban Dictionary’s data from IBM’s Watson’s memory because it learned to swear.
Walmart profits $17.20 billion a year. Their employees receive $2.66 billion in government help each year.
Hitler’s plan for Moscow was to kill all residents and replace it with a lake.
There will be a full moon on this coming Friday the 13th. There won’t be another Friday the 13th with a full moon until 2049.
37 years before Pearl Harbor, Japan launched a surprise attack on Russia, destroying much of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur. US officials applauded the attack for its ingenuity.
