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Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists

49 pointsby 1d agosciencenews.org
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4h agoHN ↗

Any article on this topic is unsatisfactory if it lacks a color photo.

3h agoHN ↗

There is a color photo, but the rose isn't actually blue.

3h agoHN ↗

Not actually blue though is it? Kinda purple.

3h agoHN ↗

I would've called it "a sickly kind of purple"

3h agoHN ↗

Are the scientists color blind? The rose is purple.

2h agoHN ↗

Bad translation, see the other top-level comment with the origin link that referes to them as violet-blue.

13m agoHN ↗

purple isn't real, there is only more blue.

1h agoHN ↗

« Hey Coop’! I guess Blue Roses occur in nature now! »

« Damn good news, Gordon! »

1h agoHN ↗

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.

1h agoHN ↗

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.

30m agoHN ↗

It was more a comment on the article than the research. Especially the title

1h agoHN ↗

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, anyone? :)

53m agoHN ↗

GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY. FINALLY ROSES ARE ALSO BLUE.

NOW MAYBE BACK TO CANCER?

22m agoHN ↗

Violets are not red / roses are not blue / you can call them purple / if you have a clue

24m agoHN ↗

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?