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Lunarpunk is a subgenre of solarpunk with a darker aesthetic. It portrays the nightlife, spirituality, and more introspective side of solarpunk utopias. It can be defined as "Witchy Solarpunk." Aesthetically, lunarpunk usually is presented with pinks, purples, blues, black, and silver with an almost omnipresence of bioluminescent plants and especially mushrooms

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Glow way! Bioluminescent houseplant hits US market for first time (www.nature.com)

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Consumers in the United States can now pre-order a genetically engineered plant for their home or garden that glows continuously. At a base cost of US$29.00, residents of the 48 contiguous states can get a petunia (Petunia hybrida) with flowers that look white during the day; but, in the dark, the plant glows a faint green. Biotechnology firm Light Bio in Sun Valley, Idaho, will begin shipping a batch of 50,000 firefly petunias in April.

Engineered petunia emits a continuous green glow thanks to genes from a light-up mushroom.

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I wonder if they programmed a kill switch in so you can’t do vegetative propogation or sterilized it so you can’t produce seeds.

Probably not, stopping vegetative propagation would require mucking around with root genes so it'd be a huge mess to keep the roots working correctly. As for sexual reproduction, despite all the fearmongering about "the terminator gene" there's never been a commercially available plant genetically engineered sterile. In fact the technology never made it out of the early testing/seeing if it actually worked phase.

They could however make the plant sterile through non-genetic engineering methods, like breeding a triploid. But that'd be kinda pointless since you could still just make cuttings.