The photo of the petunias in the article remind me of photos people take of their various tritium devices. It's always a long exposure to make it much more impressive than it actually is.
Perhaps you've seen in real life some that are much older/decayed? I have a bunch that I need to replace in sights/flashights due to this reason, they're just much dimmer than originally advertised.
(anyways, these flowers aren't phosphorous tubes excited by radioactive decay/emission so there's no way they will be as full spectrum'd/constant as the tritium vials I just described.)
That said I can’t get a clear read on it due to the foreground light.
> something absolutely invisible to naked eye in pitch black even after some time
Is it invisible, though? If it were, how would we even find out it's bioluminescent? And then, IIRC visual receptors in our eyes are sensitive to single-photon events. It takes a bit more for us to consciously perceive light, but not that much more[0].
Also, 100x enhancement is 20dB increase, which isn't little.
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[0] - https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/see_a_photon....
If there is something that terrifies me more than the capacity of Solanaceae to make sophisticated, evil poisons is to weaponize them even more with the superpower of fungus genes. The new pollen allergies could rank between "nothing to see here" and "next terrible problem".
As I said previously.
But if you use this product in an area with native Petunioideae (like for example USA), any decent consultant would suggest assure that this pollen will not contaminate wild populations because you are messing with 1) Genetics 2) conservation of nature 3) Pollinators, and there are a few bobby traps lying in your path
We could discover too late that the same gen codify for light and a 'surprise cadeau' that will accumulate toxins in the plant for example. Or that this changes the structure of pollinators in an undesirable way because they promote the contaminated genetics.
More likely would be that these cross-pollinate with other petunias in someone's garden. Which is almost entirely not a problem, unless there is something about these genes that cause the plants to just be massively invasive and spreading.
But they're annuals with seeds that do not travel well, so mitigation of that issue should be relatively simple, even if it does exist.