Horticulturists' dreams of producing blue blooms on demand have come one step closer with a discovery that could also help crop plants thrive in poor quality soils, Christopher Surridge reports.
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Surridge, C. Blue as a rose. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news001005-10
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news001005-10