The Japanese company that created the world's first genetically modified blue roses, seen here, said Monday it will start selling them next year

Blue roses to go on sale in Japan

Feb 3, 2008

TOKYO (AFP) — Think that red roses are predictable? In Japan, gift-givers soon will also have the option of blue roses.

The Japanese company that created the world's first genetically modified blue roses said Monday it will start selling them next year.

Suntory Ltd., also a major whisky distiller, hopes to sell several hundred thousand blue roses a year, company spokesman Kazumasa Nishizaki said.

"As its price may be a bit high, we are targeting demand for luxurious cut flowers, such as for gifts," he said. The exact price and commercial name for the blue rose have not been decided.

The company is also growing the rose experimentally in Australia and the United States to get approval for sales, but no timing has been set for commercial launches in the two countries.

Suntory in 2004 unveiled the world's first genetically modified blue rose after 14 years of study which also involved Australian researchers.

It created the flowers by implanting the gene that leads to the synthesis of the blue pigment Delphinidin in pansies. The pigment does not exist naturally in roses

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Side effects

Amongst sildenafil's rare but serious adverse effects are: priapism, severe hypotension, myocardial infarction, ventricular arrhythmias, stroke and increased intraocular pressure.^{[citation needed]}

Common side effects include sneezing, headache, flushing, dyspepsia, palpitations and photophobia.

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Some sildenafil users have complained of seeing everything tinted blue (cyanopsia). Some complained of blurriness and loss of peripheral vision. In May of 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that sildenafil could lead to vision impairment and a number of studies have linked sildenafil use with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy.

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Other uses

Pulmonary hypertension

As well as erectile dysfunction, sildenafil citrate is also effective in the rare disease pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). It relaxes the arterial wall, leading to decreased pulmonary arterial resistance and pressure. This in turn reduces the workload of the right ventricle of the heart and improves symptoms of right-sided heart failure. Because PDE-5 is primarily distributed within the arterial wall smooth muscle of the lungs and penis, sildenafil acts selectively in both these areas without inducing vasodilation in other areas of the body. Pfizer submitted an additional registration for sildenafil to the FDA, and sildenafil was approved for this indication in June 2005. The preparation is named Revatio, to avoid confusion with Viagra, and the 20 milligram tablets are white and round. Sildenafil joins bosentan and prostacyclin-based therapies for this condition.

Raynaud's phenomenon

In 2005, Dr. Roland Fries and colleagues reported that sildenafil cut the frequency of Raynaud's phenomenon attacks, reduced their duration by roughly one half, and more than quadrupled the mean capillary blood velocity. This was a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial and the patients had both the primary and secondary forms and had all discontinued the more conventional treatments for this.

Altitude sickness

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Non-medical use

Prevention of plant wilting

A low-concentration solution of sildenafil in water significantly prolongs the time before cut flowers wilt; one experiment showed a doubling in time from one week to two weeks. The mechanism of action is similar to that in humans: nitric oxide leads to the production of cGMP whose degradation by PDE5 is inhibited by sildenafil.^[23]

Jet lag research

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From Wikipedia

 Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of Africanpopular music, as it became the roots of jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, heavy metal, hip-hop, and other popular music forms influence. The blues influenced later American and Western forms.

 

Robert Johnson, a Delta blues singer, contributed to the standardization of the 12-bar blues form.

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Blue blood may relate to:

• "Blue Blooded": a nickname reffering to not only a wealthy family, but an established one.
• Hemocyanin: a blood protein in many molluscs and the arthropod horseshoe crab, whose oxygenated form is blue.
• Nobility: in the English language, blue blood is used to denote noble birth.

Blue blood also appears in the titles and trademarks:

• Blue Blood (album): an album by X Japan;
• Blue Blood (single): a single by Atrocity
• Blue Blood, novels by:
  • Craig Unger
  • Edward Conlon
• Blue Bloods, a novel by Melissa de la Cruz
• Blue Blood (film): a film directed by Stevan Riley;
• Blue Blood (magazine): content producer, packager, and publisher which began as a magazine of counterculture erotica
• Blue Blood Denim: a Dutch brand of luxury jeans.

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