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An image of a tobacco plant which has been genetically engineered to express a gene taken from fireflies (specifically: Photinus pyralis) which produces luciferase. The image is an "autoluminograph" produced by placing the plant directly on a piece of Kodak Ektachrome 200 film. When the plant is watered with a luciferin containing nutrient medium, tissue specific luminescence is observed. It is the first representation of a transgenic multicellular organism expressing bioluminescence. This image was first published in a November 1986 issue of the journal Science in a paper titled "Transient and stable expression of the firefly luciferase gene in plant cells and transgenic plants". [1] by David W. Ow, Keith V. Wood, Marlene DeLuca, Jeffrey R. de Wet, Donald R. Helinski and Stephen H. Howell. The research was funded by grants from the US Dept. of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation.

Image taken by Keith Wood (of DeLuca lab) for Science Magazine. Permission to use on Wikipedia has been granted by Science Magazine (see talk).

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[edit] Fair use in Autoluminograph

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Autoluminograph
Description	An image of a tobacco plant which has been genetically engineered to express a gene taken from fireflies.
Source	Image taken by Keith Wood (of DeLuca lab) for Science Magazine.
Article	Autoluminograph
Portion used	Entire photo
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	To illustrate the experiment resulting in this plant. The experiment is discussed in the article Autoluminograph.
Replaceable?	No; it would be excessively difficult to re-do the experiment and get a free photo.
Other information	We also have Wikipedia-specific permission to use this photo.

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current	20:57, 9 July 2007	211×300 (52 KB)	Remember the dot (Talk \| contribs)	(scaled down from original to 300px height to comply with WP:NONFREE)
	20:55, 9 July 2007	300×427 (89 KB)	Remember the dot (Talk \| contribs)	(Reverted to earlier revision)
	03:23, 4 July 2007	422×600 (83 KB)	Deglr6328 (Talk \| contribs)	(Reverted to earlier revision)
	20:05, 3 July 2007	300×427 (89 KB)	Remember the dot (Talk \| contribs)	(scaled down using the GIMP, kept at 100% quality)
	07:20, 30 March 2005	422×600 (83 KB)	Deglr6328 (Talk \| contribs)	(An image of a tobacco plant which has been genetically engineered to express a gene taken from fireflys which produces luciferase. When the plant is watered with a luciferin containing nutrient medium, tissue specific luminescence is obser)