Long a symbol of the unattainable, blue roses will be for sale this fall in the United States and Canada. Named "Applause," the rose is genetically modified to synthesize delphinidin, a pigment found ...

They may not be exactly blue in color, but the long-awaited commercial release of the blue rose is set to take place in Japan next week (November 3). Thought to be impossible to create because they ...

The blue rose has long been referred to by horticulturalists as the "Holy Grail" of the plant breeding world. Now what is being described as the world's first genetically-modified blue rose is about ...

May 7, 2004 — -- Giving mom a rose for Mother's Day? Thanks to an enzyme found in human liver, it might soon be possible to present her with the flower industry's Holy Grail: A blue rose. Roses ...

BEAUTIFUL flowers—like beautiful women—can separate the most sensible of men from their money. Those men invest in the reproductive organs of plants such as roses to signal, albeit coyly, analogous ...

When it came to matters of the heart, Rudyard Kipling could be rather vengeful, as revealed in his poem Blue Roses, written when he was burning with unrequited passion for Flo Garrard, a beautiful ...

The blue rose has long been referred to by horticulturalists as the "Holy Grail" of the plant breeding world. A Japanese firm has announced it will be the first to put the unique flower on sale to the ...