OT - blue rose

'They' said it could take a year to get that blue rose up and running,
whatever that means, but in fact to get any rose to market takes
about 7 years. If they were able to develop a blue rose thru genetic
manipulation of some sort they would then have to do field tests to
see if the thing was able to grow in many geographical areas, get
patents, etc. Then they would have to propagate that one little new
rose plant into thousands of clones for commercial availability via
grafting or cuttings -- this would take several years since you can
only potentially grow one new plant from each vegetative bud from the
parent plant and its resulting off-spring.
They are however getting closer to good purple roses without
extra-curricular genetic engineering these days since roses lack a
true blue gene.

Lalu

wrote in message ...
notice under the picture it says "How the blue rose could look" .. could, cause until
that gene is moved into the rose and tried dont know what kind of interactions there
are going to be, or even if the enzyme is going to get expressed. Ingrid

Charles wrote:

On Sun, 23 May 2004 03:41:09 GMT, "Nedra"
wrote:

I can't get the page to open. If you are talking about the
blue rose ... I saw it on Drudge this afternoon.
'Tis a beauty... a true blue rose.

Nedra


Try this one:

http://tinyurl.com/2llqt



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