Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists

(sciencenews.org)

49 points | by bookofjoe 1 day ago

13 comments

  • kaonwarb 3 hours ago
    Source article is better, and refers to them as “violet-blue roses” https://www.suntory.com/sic/story/20260911/
  • cinntaile 15 minutes ago
    What I'm wondering is why researchers from a brewing company are interested in creating blue roses? How will they apply this to the brewing craft?
  • furst-blumier 25 minutes ago
    Roses are red, roses are blue...
    • ozgung 12 minutes ago
      Violets are not red / roses are not blue / you can call them purple / if you have a clue
  • QuantumNomad_ 56 minutes ago
    The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, anyone? :)
  • lloydatkinson 24 minutes ago
    Mild purple would be a better name
  • rmnclmnt 1 hour ago
    « Hey Coop’! I guess Blue Roses occur in nature now! »

    « Damn good news, Gordon! »

  • mcherm 3 hours ago
    Any article on this topic is unsatisfactory if it lacks a color photo.
    • dao- 3 hours ago
      There is a color photo, but the rose isn't actually blue.
  • sajithdilshan 2 hours ago
    Are the scientists color blind? The rose is purple.
    • replygirl 4 minutes ago
      purple isn't real, there is only more blue.
    • whizzter 2 hours ago
      Bad translation, see the other top-level comment with the origin link that referes to them as violet-blue.
  • rik314159 3 hours ago
    Not actually blue though is it? Kinda purple.
    • frederikvs 3 hours ago
      I would've called it "a sickly kind of purple"
  • jimnotgym 1 hour ago
    Finally! What we have all been waiting for. Phew.

    I mean asking us to use different flowers to get our blue colours was just too much.

    • jfengel 56 minutes ago
      Weren't we the ones who breathlessly await any progress on the Riemann hypothesis? A theorem of pure number theory, with no applications.

      Breeders pursued it as a challenge. Doing it via genetic engineering probably feels like cheating to them, but the biochemists do it to learn genetic techniques.

      From the picture nobody is going to be putting these in a bouquet any time soon. But the accomplishment is neat. And even if it's not. I'm not gonna yuck their yum.

      • jimnotgym 21 minutes ago
        It was more a comment on the article than the research. Especially the title
  • lol8675309 43 minutes ago
    GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY. FINALLY ROSES ARE ALSO BLUE.

    NOW MAYBE BACK TO CANCER?