BEAUTIFUL flowers—like beautiful women—can separate the most sensible of men from their money. Those men invest in the reproductive organs of plants such as roses to signal, albeit coyly ...

Blue isn’t a natural color in these types of orchids. These are white flowers that get their color from a dye used by plant breeders. In fact, “blue is a color that is infrequent in nature ...

That makes genetically engineering a blue flower tricky, since you can't just make a straightforward tweak and expect a garden full of unnatural hues. Scientists have just managed a breakthrough ...

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And white roses can be dyed blue, but a true blue rose is rarer than a blue moon. But after 20 years of research, Japanese company, Suntory, and its Australian subsidiary, Florigene , have managed ...

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The second is to insert a gene from a plant that makes blue pigment into the genes of a rose plant. This allows the rose plant to express the gene and produce a blue colored flower. The process of ...