Scientific Breakthrough: Blue Roses!

Thought some of you might find this interesting. They say these might be popular mother's day gifts, but I'm not so sure. It seems to me more likely that they might catch on as gifts for mother's who've given birth to baby boys.I wonder why this was so difficult. Over the past decade breeders have greatly expanded the range of colors available in other flowers - day lillies are a good example. I also wonder if this new technique might be transferred to dogwoods. A blue dogwood would be a lovely sight in the spring, I think.

yes this is nice.. I would love to see a number of flowers in blue!
however I wonder if the color will effect pollination in anyway...

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They'll have to look at the original rose in the near UV spectrum and compare it to the blue one. Insects can see in the near UV and the coloration of flowers is often quite different in UV. Plant coloration in the UV often points out exactly where the insect needs to go to get the nectar/pollen.But it would be interesting to see, yes.

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