PARIS -- Glowing plants -- as seen in the seemingly fantastical flora of the 2009 film "Avatar" -- are no longer just a special effect. Molecular biologist Alexander Krichevsky of St. Louis- ...

So the plants did not glow unless luciferin was constantly fed to them. In 2010, researchers at Stony Brook University reported in the journal PLOS One that they had created a tobacco plant that ...

Glowing plants—as seen in the seemingly fantastical flora of the 2009 film Avatar—are no longer just a special effect. Molecular biologist Alexander Krichevsky of St. Louis–based biotech ...

In 2014, a St. Louis biotech company called Bioglow sold what it billed the “world’s first self-glowing plant” – a flowering tobacco plant (Nicotiana) called Starlight Avatar that faintly ...

A team of Russian scientists have gene-hacked two species of the tobacco plant to emit a visible glow — around the clock, for the entire duration of their life cycle. A stunning video shows off ...

Glowing plants are nothing new, as scientists have previously achieved this by using bioluminescent genes found in bacteria. Trouble is, these plants don’t glow very brightly, which is probably ...

Most attempts so far to create glowing greenery -- decorative tobacco plants in particular -- have relied on introducing the genes of luminescent bacteria or fireflies through genetic engineering.

A new approach This isn’t the first effort aimed at making bioluminescent plants. In 2010 scientists at Stony Brook University used genetic engineering techniques to produce a glowing tobacco plant.

Plants on Earth typically don’t glow. Engineers have developed ways to trick plants into glowing using the same bioluminescent properties that are naturally found in some glowing fungi.

Karen Sarkisyan’s tobacco plants glow. Not quite enough to read by, and less than, say, a freshly cracked glow stick, but much more than your average tobacco plant glows, because your average ...

The plants that this team has been able to make glow so far include arugula, kale, spinach, and watercress. During the initial experiments, the scientists were able to make these salad greens glow ...

Fluorescent foliage may no longer be the stuff of science fiction, as scientists have found a way to grow glow-in-the-dark plants, which radiate and maintain a mysterious green gleam for their whol… ...