Blue chrysanthemums? Japan uses genetically modified technology to create a "true blue" chrysanthemum in the world.

Blue flowers give people a noble, cool feeling, but people often see flowers are rare blue.
japanese scientists recently reported that they are using genetically modified technology to produce a "true blue" chrysanthemum in the world for the first time.
flowers such as chrysanthemums, roses, carnations and lily are the main ornamental plants in the global flower market.
Japan's agricultural and food industry technology research institute Noda Shangxin et al. in the new issue of the American journal Science-Translational Medicine, although the flowers already have white, yellow, orange, red, magenta and green varieties, but has not been bred blue varieties.
, the development of blue varieties has attracted "special interest from the flower industry and the horticultural and plant science community."
blue flowers in nature often produce a blue pigment called vermine.
but previous studies have found that common ornamental flowers are artificially made to contain vermin, producing not blue flowers but purple or violet flowers.
, Yoshihiko Noda and others, this time involved two genes.
First, they "inserted" a gene of blue wind chime grass into chrysanthemums, modified chrysanthemums to make flowers purple, and then they "inserted" a second gene from butterfly bean blossoms, which added a sugar molecule to chrysanthemums, and as a result chrysanthemums became "real blue."
This is a previously reported discovery," the researchers wrote in the paper.
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