{"id":36602,"date":"2017-12-14T14:23:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T14:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/trees-could-soon-replace-streetlights-after-scientists-create-plants-that-glow\/"},"modified":"2017-12-14T14:23:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T14:23:47","slug":"trees-could-soon-replace-streetlights-after-scientists-create-plants-that-glow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/trees-could-soon-replace-streetlights-after-scientists-create-plants-that-glow\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees could soon replace streetlights after scientists create plants that glow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One day our cities could be lit up by these shining plants (Photo: Seon-Yeong Kwak, Melanie Gonick\/ MIT)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Glowing trees could soon replace streetlights, scientists have claimed after producing plants which produce light.<\/p>\n

American researchers have discovered a way of making plants give off dim light for almost four hours.<\/p>\n

\u2018The vision is to make a plant that will function as a desk lamp \u2014 a lamp that you don\u2019t have to plug in,\u2019 said Michael Strano, professor of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/a> (MIT).<\/p>\n

\u2018The light is ultimately powered by the energy metabolism of the plant itself.\u2019<\/p>\n

Scientists injected tiny nanoparticles a chemical called luciferase into the leaves of a watercress plant to make it produce low-intensity light.<\/p>\n