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Glowing plants,

Glowing future

AUTOGENIC BIOLUMINESCENCE

I remember I watched an animated movie ‘The

Lorex’ released in 2012 based on environmental
crisis.This is one of my favourite movie which
gives message about how our one step
towards nature can change not only our
lives but also our future generations. In
the movie, I saw trees which emit light in the
dark . So a question arises is it possible to create
a plant which can emit light without harming
their actual functioning.

Bioluminescent plants have always existed
but only in the imagination of science fiction A team member Strano said, “Our target is to
enthusiasts. In real world we have only perform a treatment when the plant is a
witnessed beautiful fireflies in the summer seedling or a mature plant, and have it last
night but no known plant displays Autogenic for the lifetime of the plant.” He further
Bioluminescence. A team of MIT Engineers added.
,USA have develop plants that glow in the
dark and produce light all night by embed- “Our work very seriously opens up the
ding them with nanoparticles that absorb doorway to streetlamps that are nothing but
light during the day and release it when it treated trees, and form indirect lighting
gets dark. around homes.”

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