Startup Light Bio has created a bioluminescent petunia using mushroom genes and plans to start shipping the plants next spring. The US Department of Agriculture gave the business approval to market and sell its sparkling petunias across the country.īeginning in early 2024, the business intends to begin shipping the plants. Glow-in-the-Dark PetuniasĪs one of the engineers responsible for the glowing petunias, Sarkisyan is a cofounder of the biotech business Light Bion, based in Idaho.
Mushroom genes were used to grow glow-in-the-dark petunias in a successful study.īy utilizing mushroom DNA, Karen Sarkisyan, a synthetic biologist at Imperial College London, created glow-in-the-dark petunias.īy 2024, he wants to start selling the glowing plants. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Mushroom genes were used to grow glow-in-the-dark petunias in a successful study.
