Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants

In 2010, scientists at Stony Brook University used genes from bioluminescent marine bacteria to produce a self-glowing plant, but the light it produced was dull. Piggybacking on that discovery, entrepreneur Antony Evans launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2013 to create “glowing plants with no electricity” using a different type of bacteria. Anyone who donated was […]

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Genetically Modified Houseplants Are Coming to Clean Your Air

Browse most plant shops and you’ll be met with the promise of purified air: peace lilies and snake plants and ivy with little tags—pale blue or white, or some other color suggestive of purity—declaring that “this plant cleans air.” Patch, a popular online retailer, reserves an entire section of its website for “air-purifying indoor plants.” […]

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