image: Flower color of the transgenic chrysanthemums defined as blue compared with the Royal Horticultural Society's color chart. 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: Naonobu Noda/NARO]