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World's first genuinely blue chrysanthemum


Claire.

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Scientists genetically engineer the world’s first blue chrysanthemum

True blue flowers are a rarity in nature—they occur only in select species like morning glories and delphiniums. Now, researchers have created a genuinely blue chrysanthemum by adding two genes to the normally pink or reddish flower. The advance could be applied to other species—and it may mean that florists wanting to hawk blooms of blue will no longer have to dye them.

Read more: Science Magazine

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The bio-chemistry of colors is fascinating.

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Very pretty. I love flowers.

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Flowers together with colors for, more generally, the chemistry of the latter interests me.

For example, artists and painters alike should be aware of the fact that cadmium

is an extremely toxic metal, as its pigments produce a range of brilliant shades of yellow,

orange, red and maroon. 

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...Okay, there are so many bad things about GMOs that I must concede they've proven, e.g. with soy stains,

and potential uses as non-toxic coloring agents.

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Beautiful flowers

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