image: Various pink chrysanthemums turned "true blue." Various flower types of transgenic blue/violet/purple chrysanthemums (left) and natural pink/red/magenta chrysanthemums (right). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 26, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Noda at National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Tsukuba, Japan, and colleagues was titled, "Generation of blue chrysanthemums by anthocyanin B-ring hydroxylation and glucosylation and its coloration mechanism." view more
Credit: [Credit: Satoshi Yoshioka/NARO]