

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

I remember reading something Darwin wrote, in the Descent of Man I think, and he said the brain of an ant is far more fascinating than the brain of a human. With human, you can at least kind of understand how you can fit all that intelligence in a brain of that size. But with an ant, it’s way more intelligent than you’d expect given its brain size, so an ant brain is more interesting. Something similar could be said about bees