Scientists engineered roses that made both a blue pigment and a colorless helper molecule that brought out its shade.

The blue rose has always been something of a botanical cheat since the world’s first genetically engineered blue rose was ...

These 7 blue flowers deliver the sky, cornflower and cobalt shades that can be surprisingly hard to find in the garden.

Australian and Japanese researchers have demonstrated the application of RNAi technology for gene replacement in plants, developing the world's only blue rose. The CSIRO-developed RNAi technology was ...

For centuries, gardeners have attempted to breed blue roses with no success. But now, thanks to modern biotechnology, the elusive blue rose may finally be attainable. Researchers have found a way to ...

Roses can now be blue – a breakthrough that until recently appeared impossible. Researchers have created genetically modified roses with a distinctly bluer hue. True blue roses were l ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. There's a reason the intensely blue orchid flowers ...

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 ...

For centuries, gardeners have attempted to breed blue roses with no success. But now, thanks to modern biotechnology, the elusive blue rose may finally be attainable. Researchers have found a way to ...