7/7/2004: Blue roses

[Beestie]

A little more info from Japan Today (July 1, 2004):

TOKYO — Suntory Ltd said Wednesday it has developed the world's first biotechnology-driven blue roses. In a project Suntory started in 1990 with its Australian bio-venture subsidiary Florigene Pty Ltd, researchers have been trying to develop blue roses by extracting blue-pigment genes from other plants, such as petunias, and implanting them into roses.

Suntory said it eventually succeeded in creating blue pigment in roses by implanting the gene that leads to the synthesis of blue pigment from pansies. Unlike roses created by using conventional breeding technologies, the roses developed in the Suntory project have almost 100% Delphinidin in their petals, which has made new and very different blue roses possible. (Kyodo News)



It still doesn't look blue and I'd be bummed if this were the culmination of 14 years of work. I wonder what it smells like.

[The Mad Hatter]

It reminds me <i>The Glass Menagerie</i> by Tennessee Williams...

[Albamoss]

Originally Posted by The Mad Hatter

It reminds me <i>The Glass Menagerie</i> by Tennessee Williams...

But now, in the English courses of the future, the poor children, inundated with blue roses, won't know what the hell Laura and Jim are talking about, just as we're not quite sure what in blazes pleurosis is.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Albamoss

But now, in the English courses of the future, the poor children, inundated with blue roses, won't know what the hell Laura and Jim are talking about, just as we're not quite sure what in blazes pleurosis is.

Welcome to the Cellar, Albamoss.
Poems will start;
Roses are blue,
Violets are too,

[Albamoss]

Fine, xoxoxoBruce, just hide behind a handle impossible to implement into a poem. what the hell kind of meter is /u/u/u/ anyway? It's just not fair.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I chose it, specifically to be poem proof, at least good poem proof.

[Albamoss]

there once was a bruce with some letters
left aspiring poets in fetters
seasoned cellarites failed
but a lurker prevailed
and he earned the respect of his betters

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I chose it, specifically to be poem proof, at least good poem proof.

A MAN NAMED XOXOXOBRUCE
thought that his name did not ryhme
then this poem showed, in time
itself an oh, so, ipso facto truce.

yeah, i know its a stretch

[Cyber Wolf]

That's a pretty uncommon color for roses, I'd figure, no matter how they were grown. Normally all you see is white, pink and red, unless you frequent greenhouses that may have more. I saw some tangerine-y colored ones once at a greenhouse.

I'm with hermex though... show me some ultramarine blue roses and I'll want to know where I can get some. Love me some black roses too.