Anthocyanins are major pigments responsible for the vivid colors of ornamental flowers. However, the metabolic origin of the precursor phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), which fuels anthocyanin biosynthesis ...

Easy-to-grow, sturdy petunia plants produce flowers with a great variety of spectacular colors and a captivating scent. The Maya in Mexico and Inca in Peru believed that the scent of petunias had the ...

Researchers at Cornell University chose it for exactly that reason when they set out to study how flowers build precise forms ...