The mechanism for touch has not yet been fully isolated and introduced into another organism. I believe dinos act like other marine bioglowers and have a quorum sensing based glow response so touch would not work since it is not there. I could be wrong. If one could isolate the theoretical membrane bound mechanoreceptors from touch plants and tie it in with a glow promoter in the chloroplast, that might work. Maybe take animal mechanoreceptors and tie them to hair promoting genes like those from tomato or african violet. Then do the whole glow response jazz. Many possibilities. Sty for the tangental response, mega. :)
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I wonder if you could take dinoflagellate chromosomes and put it into plant nucleus?
That would give you polyploid plants that glow when touched??
On Saturday, October 20, 2012 7:20:15 PM UTC+2, Sebastian wrote:I was thinking about this for a while now. What about forgetting auto-luminescent plants and trying phosphorescent plants instead? I spoke with some colleagues and they all said to keep it hush hush in case it works and patent the crap out of it. I would rather have the brilliant minds of the DIYBio community take a crack at the idea and if it works then go open source. Anywho, my question is: Does anyone know of phosphorescent proteins that could be expressed in plants? Charge during the day, glow at night. Ive seen some papers on non-exponential light release with phosphorescent molecules but they were all kinds of salts. Ive also heard that high amounts of tryptophan residues have a visible phosphorescent activity. The pipe-dream of high light output via lux pathway seems to be just that. As another DIYBiologist said, the metabolic rate required for sustained illumination would kill the plant...unless there is something we are overlooking of course.--
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