Your reasoning makes sense but we can’t really be sure until we let their seeds loose in the wild and see how they do. Bioluminescent animals and algae do exist. There’s no reason why there couldn’t be some unforeseen selective benefit that would allow these mutated glowing plants to thrive
Anything could happen obviously, but it’s not really fundamentally different from something evolving naturally either. If there is some benefit to this, we might see a new kind of ecosystem developing around these plants. That’s always a risk with biology.
Your reasoning makes sense but we can’t really be sure until we let their seeds loose in the wild and see how they do. Bioluminescent animals and algae do exist. There’s no reason why there couldn’t be some unforeseen selective benefit that would allow these mutated glowing plants to thrive
Anything could happen obviously, but it’s not really fundamentally different from something evolving naturally either. If there is some benefit to this, we might see a new kind of ecosystem developing around these plants. That’s always a risk with biology.