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welcome to the cool stuff ride home podcast marcus path alongside reggie razu on today's episode

you might soon up to light your yard with

plants. We'll explain. Plus, human doctors are called in for a first at the 115-year-old

Fort Worth Zoo, and on this day in history, the Finnish government proposes what we'll call

a very unique holiday details to come. It's cool stuff.

For fans of science fiction, it's the stuff dreams are made of.

Bio-luminousant plants, reminiscent of fireflies that light up the forest.

Or your living room, whichever you choose.

A 2020 paper in the scientific journal Nature, Biotechnology, detailed how scientists found a way to grow glow-in-the-dark plants that radiate and maintain a mysterious green glow for the entirety of their life cycle.

And now that technology is available to you in the form of Firefly petunias, recently approved by the USDA as safe and thus available to be pre-ordered online.

But before we get into this stellar opportunity to light up your home with Flora, let's talk about how we got here.

It all started with mushrooms, but perhaps not the ones you're thinking of.

Scientists noted that the bioluminescence found in certain

mushrooms was metabolically similar to some of the natural processes occurring in plants. Given that

important piece of information, they were able to transfer DNA sequences from mushrooms into

tobacco plants, causing them to give off a bright green glow, which lasted all the way from seedling

to maturity. Put another way, they genetically engineered tobacco plants with the fungal

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