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...

Plant breeding involves a great deal of luck and you can have some really good success with that. Luther Burbank produced numerous amazing p...

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...

Years ago I heard a story. The story teller's cousin has been growing potatoes and tomatoes each of the last several years. Some years,...

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...