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World's First True Blue Rose, Thanks to Biotech
FiReaNGeL writes "Researchers from CSRIO achieved the holy grail of rose breeders since 1840 - breeding a blue rose. Using RNAi technology, they knocked down the red pigment gene and introduced a blue pigment producing one. The result is the world's first true blue rose - no word about whether it'll be commercially available or not. A factsheet describing the technique and a detailed summary are available."
Where's the picture? Is this a Vaporware Gene?
Violets are blue Now thanks to biotech Roses are too
http://www.physorg.com/news3581.html
no word about whether it'll be commercially available or not.
Go back and RTFA:
Commercial availability
Florigene has already successfully created blue carnations using gene technology and these have been available in Australia since 1996.
It will be at least 3 years before blue roses will be commercially available in Australia, pending approval from the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator for their commercial release.
and marathon runners would consider using a car cheating.
yet, if you're not doing it just for the sport(breeders aren't) then whatever gets the job done is the smart choice.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I think we should have a vote on this one. How about: 1) "Have a bad day" 2) "I'm breaking up with you" 3) "This rose cost a sh** load of cash, you better like it" 4) "I still don't want to marry you, so instead of a ring..." 5) "I am red/blue colorblind and I still don't care about roses"
The way of talking about this that is in current vogue among biologists seems to be "cladistic analysis". All life forms are classified in a tree structure representing evolutionary pedigree. This is probably a gross simplification, but every genetic innovation creates a new branch (or clades). Some would argue that traditional taxonomic categories like genera and species are meaningless.
If you replace the red gene with a blue gene, you have developed a new clades. It is still substantially a rose, whether or not it smell sweet. Of course your mom might not call this thing a rose if it smelled like a skunk, so YMMV.
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This blue rose reminds me of you,
Beautiful and artificial.