droryomr

A bit about me: 35 years old. Married (to a NanoTechnology Prof' in the Technion, Israel) with one 2.5 years old kid on one on the way.

Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Tel-Aviv University

Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine & HHMI

List of peer-reviewed publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=drory+o

Agree!

The glowing effect uses energy - it takes a burden on the plant metabolism and sustainability. Even if this would "escape" into the wild (like countless genetic modified bacteria and yeast did during the 40 years we're been doing genetic engineering) - it will not prosper in nature.

the night scene in AVATAR with the touch based plant bioluminescence were a definite inspiration for me :-)

Fun Fact: Peter Diamandis (Xprize and Singularity University) sent the kickstarter info to AVATAR director James Cameron - hopefully he will be a backer too!

Well - There are several proteins involved. You can think about proteins as small/nano scale machines. We will insert the code to produce several of those machines into plants.

One machine is Luciferase - it breaks down a fuel molecule called Luciferin to produce light (photons). The other machines will be generating the fuel from molecules already in the plant