What if your garden didn’t go dark after sunset? The Firefly Petunia from Light Bio brings a magical glow to your nighttime landscape, thanks to cutting-edge biotechnology. Developed using genes from ...

For millions of years, fireflies have relied on a precise chemical ballet to signal for mates in the summer dusk. Meanwhile, deep-forest fungi emit a ghostly luminescence to attract spore-dispersing ...

Firefly petunias, genetically modified with bioluminescent mushroom DNA, glow in the dark. The glow, primarily from the flowers, is most vibrant in new blooms and is similar to moonlight. While more ...

Lightning bugs are not the only thing glowing in Iowa gardens this summer. Firefly petunias were sold at select flower nurseries around Iowa, with some locations selling out of the glowing flowers. At ...

The world of genetics has really had a tremendous impact on our lives. There is a lot of talk about GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, in the news. Labels even alert us to the presence of these ...

With spring around the corner, an Idaho-based startup company is making its new glow-in-the-dark petunia available again, and founders say it will bring a little “magic” to gardens. Light Bio ...

DALLAS — If you’ve got someone special in your life, you can light up their world with flowers. Or you can just light up the flowers. “It’s the first plant that I’ve seen that glows in the dark,” said ...

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Sporting petals that glow in the dark — these flowers aren’t artificial. Recently named a Time Best Invention of 2024, the bioluminescent Firefly Petunia was engineered right here in Idaho by Light ...