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Bio luminescent fruit?

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The setting for my story is a very foggy and windy place. There is a plant that grows on relatively short trees that needs to attract animals to spread its seeds, which are inside its fruit. Because of the wind, smell is not a good way to attract animals as it will be hard to locate the source and it will be quickly diluted. It is often easier to see light than color in fog. So, could the plant have bio luminescent fruit? From my research, it is my impression that the "easiest" way to have bio luminescent fruit would be to have the fruit contain or in some way host a population of bio luminescent bacteria. However, when the fruit gets eaten, the bacteria will be in the animal and/or its excrement and no longer the plant. How can the plant either keep or get back its bio luminescence/bio luminescent bacteria to continue spreading its genes?

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