{"id":211828,"date":"2025-04-19T02:29:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/red-pink-or-white-all-roses-were-once-yellow-says-genomic-analysis"},"modified":"2025-04-19T02:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:29:34","slug":"red-pink-or-white-all-roses-were-once-yellow-says-genomic-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/red-pink-or-white-all-roses-were-once-yellow-says-genomic-analysis","title":{"rendered":"Red, pink or white, all roses were once yellow says genomic analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/red-pink-or-white-all-roses-were-once-yellow-says-genomic-analysis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Red roses, the symbol of love, were likely yellow in the past, indicates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41477-025-01955-5\" target=\"_blank\">a large genomic analysis<\/a> by researchers from Beijing Forestry University, China. Roses of all colors, including white, red, pink, and peach, belong to the genus Rosa, which is a member of the Rosaceae family.<\/p>\n<p>Reconstructing the ancestral traits through genomic analysis revealed that all the roads trace back to a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/common+ancestor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">common ancestor <\/a>\u2014a single-petal flower with yellow color and seven leaflets.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are published in Nature Plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red roses, the symbol of love, were likely yellow in the past, indicates a large genomic analysis by researchers from Beijing Forestry University, China. Roses of all colors, including white, red, pink, and peach, belong to the genus Rosa, which is a member of the Rosaceae family. Reconstructing the ancestral traits through genomic analysis revealed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}