Roses get celery gene to help fight disease

Friday, February 11, 2011 - 12:20 in Biology & Nature

A rose by any other name would smell... like celery? North Carolina State University research intended to extend the 'vase life' of roses inserts a gene from celery inside rose plants to help fight off botrytis, or petal blight, one of the rose's major post-harvest diseases...

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