A New Kind of Night Light

Published on May 10, 2024

This year avid gardeners and plant collectors were able to purchase something completely out of the ordinary −   a glowing petunia. Find out more about the science behind the glow and bioluminescence in this new blog post by Hanna Kurlanda-Witek: 

What does this remarkable new product do for science? It isn’t a cure for infectious diseases. It won’t impact climate change. But the glow-in-the-dark plant can highlight the complexity of plant biology. It also reveals that science can simply make things pretty.

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