http://clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/date/2008/11/1/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/date/2008/11/1/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/AFC7CCCD-9AA3-484D-B220-94AAFB3C0DE1/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/">CrazyRedHead</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082290/Pictured-Worlds-truly-blue-roses-display-Japan.html" title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082290/Pictured-Worlds-truly-blue-roses-display-Japan.html">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/86D9DCF6-91E0-440F-A3E6-5A9ED6B9E039.jpg" alt="The stuff of legend: Blue roses have gone on display in Japan and will be on sale next year" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>They are the stuff of legend - signifying mystery and traditionally believed to be able to grant the owner youth.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>For years breeders have crossed different colours of roses in an effort to create the impossible. But rose petals lack the enzyme needed to create a blue pigment and the breeders always failed.<BR /></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Now for the first time, thanks to genetic engineering, blue roses finally exist.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The very first truly blue roses have gone on display in Japan and will be on sale to the public next year.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>After 13  years of research the Japanese Suntory company have finally perfected the mythical flower.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/8957C50D-8263-489B-8B59-C58359B880D2.jpg" alt="Genetically engineered: The flowers have a gene from a petunia inserted in them" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Working with the Australian company Florigene the researchers took the delphinidin gene, which creates the blue colour, from a petunia. They then inserted it into a mauve rose called the Cardinal de Richelieu.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The resultant flower was a dark burgundy colour due to an excess of the blue pigment cyanidin.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/roses/" rel="tag">roses</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/flowers/" rel="tag">flowers</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/science/" rel="tag">science</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/genetics/" rel="tag">genetics</a></div>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082290/Pictured-Worlds-truly-blue-roses-display-Japan.htmlSun, 02 Nov 2008 02:44:48 GMT