Blue Roses
A new consumer biotech product that has been in the works since the early 90s was announced on Monday - a rose genetically engineered to be blue (looks purple to me). A Japanese company, Suntory Ltd., is distributing the flowers, however the science was mostly done at Florigene. Unique house plants seem like an early application area for consumer biotech - genes for new pigments and drought-resistance (my plants could use this!) are obvious alterations. Anything else on your wishlist? I’d vote for bonsai trees that didn’t require clipping to stay small.
Posted: February 6th, 2008 under Consumer Biotech.
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Comment from Blue Roses
Time: January 26, 2009, 2:25 am
We, florists, have been waiting for this company (and others) since 1991 to get this formula right (yea, this isn’t the first time they claimed to “discover” blue roses)
It seems almost impossible.
As you say, it’s more lavender, light purple, than a “true” blue rose.
This rose will be a hard sell to floral companies who know that their customers a looking for a royal blue colored rose.
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