aroidgrower

I have been looking in genetic modification of plants and animals for sometime. I seems like a very interesting new science and some of the results seem more scifi than real. A few years back a fire fly gene was put in a orchid and the plant now glows in the dark. I have heard it is being mass produced but I hear it's about 2,000.00 a plant yet I have not seen one offered at this price personally.
I have a friend who works in this field and I also recently found a website that aparently will do this work for a price. Both my friend and the company said they would be willing to do the work which could take 1 to 2 years and cost would be higher than I am willing to pay.
I thought that people here would be interested to know that the reality of a glowing banana is out their. The plants probably best to use Ae Ae or the lime form of Siam Ruby. I have also seen were new animals genes are being use. The bioluminescent genes were once just yellow lime green color they now have blue orange and red. I believe their is some work to make the brighter as well. Now a glow in the dark banana sounds interesting as a novelty to me but the potential for adding hardy genese disease tollerant and other useful genes are being worked with as well.
This science looks to produce a lot of useful and interesting products and organisims but the downside to this work can but very dangerous. The glowing gene which is aparently harmless seems more novel than any of the other work I have read about. Some thinks like producing grass that is roundup tollerant were you can spray you whole yard with roundup and the grass will survive. The problem here was the grass was being grown and pollenated with similar weedy grasses producing super weeds which are tollerant of roundup. Other creations are now being shown in the guinness book of records they have a whole section for the first genetically modified plants and animals in it was the first glow in the dark rabbit, cat , pics and mice also being used are florecent genes but these only glow under the florecent or black lights.
Well hope maybe in years to come we will see some of these crazy creations I am thinking the price for the work now would be around 70 to 150 thousand dollars. Anyone interseted LOL.