Perspective
Glowing plants, especially “planterns”, showed promising prespections
in detecting microbiome changes in built environment, and also can be
use as natural illumination (Reuter et al., 2020; Stewart et al., 2018).
The goal of generating “planterns” will promote the development of
plant biotechnology and benefit synthetic biology in return. Creating
“planterns” will beone of the research hotspots because many
pioneering designs leave several suboptimization to be enhanced.
Commerical popularization of “planterns” will probably achieve another
success, given the fact that several genetic modified fluorescent
zebrafish species are still existing in worldwide aquarium despite
controversy (Knight 2003; Stewart 2006). We believe that it will be
possible to read or write under the luminescence of desk “planterns”,
drive beneath the light of street “planterns”, and enjoy the
mysterious atmosphere provided by garden “planterns” in the future.