They can’t. This article is … nonsense.

They make no claim that they created anything new, but attempt to position themselves as different to the American company that did this independently and hit market a couple years ago.

This is just different plants. As far as the article can asserts it’s just they did it to different plants.

Light bio did petunias as an intermediary to their actual product and found a fun way to subsidize the research and design of their ultimate product which is for Agricultural use.

This is an advert for their line of plants, not a science article about new science or a new discovery of any kind.

zmescience as a website feels very much like a clickbait farm for hosting adverts, it’s “provocative” (their tagline, not mine) and sensationalist (my tagline, not theirs)