Given that these plants would need to devote a significant amount of resources to store the energy in order to produce light, I would expect they would be outcompeted by regular plants that aren’t wasting their energy in the wild. Selection pressures generally favor efficient use of energy.
Given that these plants would need to devote a significant amount of resources to store the energy in order to produce light, I would expect they would be outcompeted by regular plants that aren’t wasting their energy in the wild. Selection pressures generally favor efficient use of energy.