Source article is better, and refers to them as “violet-blue roses” <a href="https://www.suntory.com/sic/story/20260911/" rel="nofollow">https://www.suntory.com/sic/story/20260911/</a>
I think it’s interesting they noted the flowers stopped making the new pigment in the wild after 3 years - is it a genetic treatment that requires repeated intervention to maintain the effect?<p>I’m also guessing the new genes don’t propagate to the seeds as well, so that they can have a steady demand for their special flowers.
Roses are red, roses are blue...
« Hey Coop’! I guess Blue Roses occur in nature now! »<p>« Damn good news, Gordon! »
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?
It's proof of concept for biotech applicability.<p>More details on this page.<p><a href="https://www.suntory.com/sic/story/bluerose/1/" rel="nofollow">https://www.suntory.com/sic/story/bluerose/1/</a>
Imagine making beer where fermentation creates alcohol and some other psychoactive substance.
Any article on this topic is unsatisfactory if it lacks a color photo.
Are the scientists color blind? The rose is purple.
It's obviously white and gold.
Bad translation, see the other top-level comment with the origin link that referes to them as violet-blue.
purple isn't real, there is only more blue.
<i>The Glass Menagerie</i> by Tennessee Williams, anyone? :)
> Finally, a true blue rose exists<p>> It's actually a gradient from white to do desaturated blueish - kinda violet.<p>What are they sniffing? When I hear "true blue rose", I imagine a red rose but blue, not this Frankenstein.
2004?
Not actually blue though is it? Kinda purple.
Mild purple would be a better name
GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY.
FINALLY ROSES ARE ALSO BLUE.<p>NOW MAYBE BACK TO CANCER?
Not everyone has the skill set to cure cancer.<p>1,000 labs spending $1M each to cure cancer would likely not progress as far as 10 labs spending $100M each.<p>Perfecting the techniques around genetic manipulation will likely indirectly help cure cancer.<p>Doing so on something that has public appeal (and little to no opposition) is less risky than doing it on an animal cell line.
Finally! What we have all been waiting for. Phew.<p>I mean asking us to use different flowers to get our blue colours was just too much.
Weren't we the ones who breathlessly await any progress on the Riemann hypothesis? A theorem of pure number theory, with no applications.<p>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.<p>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.