what would Ron Finley http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la.html make out of these plants (assuming they somehow produce enough light when needed)?

glowsticks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow_stick have no luciferase inside, sorry. most of them are actually very much void of proteins.

Genome Compiler is a nice tool, but the luciferase gene is since long available to molecular biology and can be just put in the right vector for expressing it in the plants... why making everything more complicated? or do the authors just want to buy the fancy genome complier software for something else? ;)

this project does not show any calculations as of where the plants should aquire enough energy to give enough light when needed. to get 1000 lumen from a source, one has to generate enough photons first. also the heat produced goes where? is it not harmful to the plants? nobody yet has evaluated or tested what goes on exactly when you have a plant producing light and also consuming it at the same time. ... and we also do not know how our bodies like the firefly luciferase when consumed - any firefly eating people around to enlighten us?

this is for sure an interesting movement. an old system (from the time of renaissance, IIRC) rediscovered and implemented with modern means.

what i find really interesting is how such a crystoptical system (origami lens sounds misleading and quite wrong, sorry) behaves in phase contrast transformation... if it's just mirrors of molecular thikness layers, then i would think that even aberrations can be eliminated... and this would lead not only to cheap mini-objectives but also to excellent reproducing objectives for professional photography... especially in the wide-lens range, where good optical systems are hard to make.