Chinese scientists develop new green rose techniques

Researchers from China are very confident that they have succeeded in creating the first true blue rose.

The method revealed by the researchers is to use enzymes to produce pigments from bacteria in the petals of white flowers.

To accomplish this, the researchers created an Agrobacterium tumerfacien strain that helps turn genes into pigments that help the petals turn green most naturally.

This type of Agrobacterium tumerfacien helps to turn genes that make pigment and help create a blue color that spreads from the injection site. However, in fact, the white rose has not yet been completely green and only one part is light blue.

The white rose, after being implanted, has only the injection part, which can turn color into black and blue.

Yihua Chen from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Yan Zhang of Tianjin University, members of the research team said they wanted to develop the simplest process to create a true color rose. Green instead of complicated, expensive techniques.

Some argue that this is not considered a new step in the creation of green roses, but Chinese researchers still think this is a new step to create the first 'real' green rose in the world. gender.

Not only that, the team also said, they will continue to create roses that can self-produce enzymes to convert into blue without interference by injection.

In fact, over the past two decades, in addition to using staining, biologists have created green roses through a combination of genetic engineering and breeding selection. However, the color of flowers is not as expected of many people.

Blue roses first appeared in France in the late nineteenth century. The plant is crossed between two wild roses in East Asia (Rosa chinensis - Chinese wild rose and Rosa multilora-pink).

After that, the Japanese company Suntory succeeded in growing the green winged rose plants. The company combined with an Australian company, called Florigene, to get the gene called delphinidin . This gene works to make the petals turn green, this gene is taken from the rose purple petals.