BIOLUMINESCENT TREES COULD BE THE NEW STREET LIGHTING IN CITIES

The ability of some organisms to behave like living nocturnal lights could be the key to some notable advances.
The team of Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde, who has conceptualized intelligent and interactive highways as well as parks that eliminate smog particles, is turning its attention to bioluminescent bacteria. By merging its light-producing compound with plants, the team visualizes illuminating the streets of the city with trees that shine at night.
The concept of a plant that glows in the dark has existed for a while. A team from the University of Cambridge modified the genetic material of the fireflies and the bioluminescent bacterium Vibrio fischeri, to increase the production of light enzymes that can finally be inserted into the genomes. A Kickstarter campaign for bright plants that do not use electricity was funded three years ago. And at the beginning of 2016, algae lamps appeared that store energy produced through photosynthesis during the day to generate light at night.
"When a jellyfish is deep, well below water, it creates its own light", Roosegaarde tells Dezeen. "It has no battery, solar panel or received power. He does it completely autonomously. What can we learn from that?"