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Generically engineered plants for the home

You mean "genetically"? They already are.. Like roses, or most patented strains. Lots of research into cannabis. What do you think these plants do?

This is what genetic recombination has made possible in tropical fish in just the last ten years:

I don't doubt we will see CRISPR and friends applied to ornamental plants the way they are already applied to food crops.