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St. Louis-based biotech company Bioglow has put 20 of its light-emitting plants up for auction. The plant, called Starlight Avatar, glows blue-green throughout its life cycle, but lives only for two to three months.

To create the plants, Bioglow added genes from bioluminescent marine bacteria to the chloroplast genome of an ornamental species of tobacco called Nicotiana alata. (Source)

The fruit of Pandanus tectorius is a round or oval head about 8 inches long and consisting of numerous segments called keys. There are 40 to 80 keys in each fruit. The color of the fruit ranges from yellow to orange to reddish when ripe. It takes several months for the fruits to ripen. Ripe fruits are very fragrant. They are native to Hawaii. The fleshy, juicy keys can be eaten raw or cooked. (Source)