The artificial cultivation of rare blue roses that do not exist in nature has always been regarded as one of the "Holy Grails" of horticulture. Horticulturists from various countries have so far developed thousands of new varieties of roses of various colors, but blue roses are still out of reach. In recent years, people have pinned their hopes on cultivating blue roses on the booming genetic engineering. However, scientists have used genetic engineering methods to insert genes that control blue pigment production from other blue flowers into rose genes, but have never been successful. The scientists discovered that the biochemistry of the rose was somehow resistant to the insertion of the blue pigment gene.
However, recently this myth has been broken. There is already "the world's first blue rose". The rose that symbolizes love has another color. Japanese beer giant Suntory entered the flower industry and successfully cultivated the world's first blue rose with an Australian biotechnology company. The blue rose, which has been considered impossible to cultivate until now, has finally appeared in front of the world with the cooperation of Suntory and an Australian biotechnology company. Blue roses are made from the blue sap of pansies and took 14 years to cultivate using gene transfer technology. Suntory said that blue roses will be cultivated and sold in large quantities in three years.