The first line is expected to create a luminous plant breeding success, special night effect

Recently, the Yunnan team of scientists in China for the first time in China, the successful cultivation of the luminous plant, scientists through biological engineering technology, marine microbial luminescence gene into the tobacco plant's cells, by plant tissue culture and screening, the luminous plants, to fill the gaps in the relevant technology of our country, which the foundation for the further application of this technology in china.

The main leaders of the project, Yunnan nabok technology Duan Kang said: "the past light plant biological engineering cultivation must be in the blue violet light under the irradiation of wearing glasses to see the fluorescence, or adding luciferin substrate realize temporary light, luminous intensity of the naked eye is not visible, not self luminous at night."

"Even spraying fluorescent powder to short-term luminous effect in general plant surface, these are not real luminous plants. The plant and our training is completely different, it can be self sustained glow in the dark conditions, the brightness can reach the star level, can illuminate a certain range." It is understood that the world's first line light plant, Bioglow of the United States breed in 2014, named "star Afanda".

"The key is to get the power of Marine luminous bacteria, to obtain the complete luminous gene is very difficult; another key lies in the luminescence gene was successfully transfected to the chloroplast genome of plant cells, in a plant cell with only one nuclear genome, but there are hundreds of chloroplast, each copy inside the chloroplast a hundred sets of chloroplast genome, so that each plant cells have nearly 10000 copies of chloroplast genome, so that plant emission has become a possibility." Duan Kang added.

(R & D personnel in the cultivation of light plant, source: Yunnan)

It is understood that the luminescence genes such as genes into the firefly, bobtail squid, deep-sea anglerfish etc. to plants, plants can make autofluorescence, it is very difficult to implement, even some GMO giants try to success.

Guangxi Normal University distinguished researcher Jean Hao believes that this technology has a wide application prospect. He said that on the international use of light-emitting plants to city lighting has been discussed, and the individual team have made progress. "During the day, light plant no difference in appearance and ordinary plants, only when the night come shine. At least without the glare of local lighting, light plant is expected to replace part of the lighting facilities and equipment, reduce energy consumption, but also can create a special night effect."

In fact, in 2015, the United States a synthetic biology technology company Genome Compiler has developed a self luminous plant Glowing Plant, their vision is to the roadside trees on the street like that can be self luminous, and become a new generation of environmentally friendly energy-saving lighting.

In this section, Kang said, also need to have a lot of work to do. The team the next step is to further improve the brightness of the light emitting plants at the same time, the Department of agriculture to assess the Declaration on environmental safety, passed after the technology is applied to the fleshy flowers, ornamental plants such as to.

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