Genetically Modified Houseplants Are Coming to Clean Your Air

Designer houseplants are engineered to fight air pollution

The designer plant is a mutated version of golden pothos, a houseplant commonly known as Devil's Ivy. Dubbed Neo P1, the plant can reportedly turn the VOCs...

Genetically Modified Houseplants Are Coming to Clean Your Air

Neoplants says its pothos has superior purification properties—but you’ll still need a lot of them to get the job done.

Genetically Modified Houseplants Are Coming to Clean Your Air

New life is taking shape in an old shoe factory on the outskirts of Paris. Behind a heavy door, a bank of PCR machines multiply the plant's DNA molecules by

Genetically Modified Houseplants Are Coming to Clean Your Air - Ghanamma.com

Browse most plant shops and you’ll be met with the promise of purified air: peace lilies and snake plants and ivy with little tags—pale blue or white, or some other color suggestive of purity—declaring that “this plant cleans air.” Patch, a popular online retailer, reserves an entire section of its website for “air-purifying indoor plants.” […]

Air-purifying houseplants: A myth?

Though plants technically remove a very minimum amount of airborne toxins, to really impact the air quality at least 10 plants need to be kept per square feet which means having 5,000 plants in a small 500sq feet apartment