The Biologist Is In

My ongoing project to produce distinctly blue dry beans occasionally throws a surprise at me. This spring, two plants with bright red flower...

After several years of looking for a truly blue dry bean, I started actively working to produce my own variety in 2018 when I was gifted a f...

In my last post ( https://the-biologist-is-in.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-color-of-beans-3.html ), I shared a couple figures illustrating the f...

A great deal of research has gone into our understanding of how colors are made in plants. I've previously written about the carotenoid ...

The pineapple we all grew up with is a bright yellow color. The pineapples of today isn't necessarily the same shade. Del Monte is now...

A few years back I wrote a short post to introduced a project I had started to breed up a nicely blue colored dry bean.  https://the-biologi...

Online seed vendors vary dramatically from the largely respectable, to the folks selling "peppers" like those below that I found ...

[Photo from link .] I've eaten fava beans ( Vicia faba ) from time to time, but I've never grown them. I was recently perusing ...

I've previously posted about what might go into changing the color of onions ( the-biologist-is-in.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-color-of-on...

Blue-Bead Lily ( Clintonia borealis ) Blue is very hard/expensive for biology to produce. Blue light is higher energy than other visi...

I visited Hawai'i last year for a horticulture conference. Well, my spouse was attending the conference. I was just going along for v...

Figure from [link] . Most birds have much better color vision than mammals. In general, they have four distinct types of color-sensing ...