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'Le Rouge et le Noir': a decline in flavone formation correlates with the rare color of black dahlia (Dahlia variabilis hort.) flowers.
BMC plant biology - 23 Nov 2012
Thill Jana, Miosic Silvija, Ahmed Romel, Schlangen Karin, Muster Gerlinde, Stich Karl, Halbwirth Heidi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: More than 20,000 cultivars of garden dahlia (Dahlia variabilis hort.) are available showing flower colour from white, yellow and orange to every imaginable hue of red and purple tones. Thereof, only a handful of cultivars are so-called black dahlias showing distinct black-red tints. Flower colour in dahlia is a result of the accumulation of red anthocyanins, yellow anthochlors (6'-deoxychalcones and...
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