Can You Explain The Work Of Great Dr. David Owl?

Dr. David Owl of the university of the California in San Diego is so skilled in handling luciferin and luciferase that he can easily make any organism he wishes glow. For instance, he incorporate the genetic information for lucoferase into tobacco plants, places a tobacco seed in lucferin solution and need begins to germinated and glow with a mysterious green color.

This is not a pointless as it may wound. Since this method has been perfected, it has been possible to carry out tests as never before. Plants that have been thus treated to glow and subsequently multiply by cloning make it possible to see at a glance whether their genotype has been altered through mutation.

Marine biologists at the scripts institute of the oceanography in La Jolla, California have taken another path in the mastery of bioluminescence. They removed a self luminescent agen package from the easier to handle the microorganisms responsible for marine luminescence and the transferred this gene package known as LUX (which naturally contains luciferase and luciferine) into bacteria pathogenic to plants. The glow of infected plants makes it possible to follow exactly where the bacteria are. Biotechnological tricks such as this will naturally prove their worth in medical diagnostics as well.

Coincidently, one of the by products of these scientific achievements appears fascinating. American marine biologists believe it would be perfectly to introduce the LUX gene packages into the flowers at the roadside or into Christmas trees so that we could then drive at night past mysteriously glowing flowers, or stand reverently beneath a Christmas tree that looked as if it had been colonized by a horde of glowworms.

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