World's first truly blue roses go on display in Japan

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They are the stuff of legend - signifying mystery and traditionally believed to be able to grant the owner youth.

For years breeders have crossed different colours of roses in an effort to create the impossible. But rose petals lack the enzyme needed to create a blue pigment and the breeders always failed.
Now for the first time, thanks to genetic engineering, blue roses finally exist.
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The stuff of legend: Blue roses have gone on display in Japan and will be on sale next year

The very first truly blue roses have gone on display in Japan and will be on sale to the public next year.

After 13 years of research the Japanese Suntory company have finally perfected the mythical flower.

Working with the Australian company Florigene the researchers took the delphinidin gene, which creates the blue colour, from a petunia. They then inserted it into a mauve rose called the Cardinal de Richelieu.

The resultant flower was a dark burgundy colour due to an excess of the blue pigment cyanidin.

After using RNAi technology to reduce this the final blue rose was today unveiled at the annual Flower Expo held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.
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Genetically engineered: The flowers have a gene from a petunia inserted in them.

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Another genetically engineered thing, before it was the glow in the dark cat, now blue roses, not that the roses not nice looking but,.. what's next?
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Originally Posted by internetchick /img/forum/go_quote.gif Pretty! But they look periwinkle on my screen, not blue. Same here lol.
 
Sooo pretty!

Why does Japan get all the cool stuff, lol!!?!?!?

 
Yeah, I know right...what next? Anywho, those are beautiful. Ah, I'm a sucker for roses anyway so no matter what color they come in I'm lovin' it
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they are so pretty.

they have a ton of geneticly enginered stuff.

like lizards with wings that rezemble and ancient dinasour but there are only 3 and they keep them in labs so they dont breed with the regular lizard population

oh in japan they cross lemurs and cats and have them as pets

 
Its not showing up as a true blue on my screen either, still pretty.. but hardly worth 16 years of study i think... red roses look nicer lol

 

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