[PER] голубые розы

Roses are red, and a variety of other colors.

But they've never been blue — an omission legions of rose breeders have sought for centuries to remedy.

"It would be a beautiful thing to see," said James Armstrong, an award-winning flower show exhibitor and consultant with the San Francisco Rose Society.

Breakthroughs in biotechnology may finally resolve the quest for the elusive blue rose, which, alas, does not exist because roses lack the corresponding pigment genes.

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