Seeing a bioluminescent petunia at precisely this moment could help people recognize plants for the creatures they are. Do houseplants need to glow for more of us to see them as alive? Ideally not.

The lush forests of Switzerland are not the first place that bioluminescent organisms come to mind. However, a forest in a Zurich neighborhood is home to a bioluminescent mushroom that glows green.

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Although bioluminescence has been observed for many centuries, its application in biomedicine is relatively recent. Scientists traced back the ...

The players behind Firefly, a glow-in-the-dark petunia, share the backstory behind this illuminating discovery and how they ...