Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 58, No. 10 (2007), pp. 2471-2478 (8 pages) The intensity of flower colour, mainly determined by the amount of anthocyanin, is an important horticultural trait. To ...

It often takes years of careful cross-breeding for horticulturalists to turn flowers certain colors, but scientists can dig right in and change them at a genetic level much faster. Using the ...

Flowering plants feature a wondrous array of colors, the primary purpose of which is to attract insect pollinators. But this may not have been the original function of flower color. In a recent review ...

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