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6 unusual facts about Antirrhinum


Blue tomato

Blue tomatoes have also been developed at the John Innes Centre in the UK using GMO gene splicing techniques, incorporating genes from snapdragons to increase the anthocyanin levels.

Muriel Wheldale Onslow

In 1903 she joined William Bateson's genetics lab at Cambridge where she began her study of the inheritance of petal color in Antirrhinum (snapdragons).

Omega Epsilon Sigma

The colors were yellow and white; the flower was the snapdragon.

Tomato mosaic virus

These include pepper, petunia, snapdragon, delphinium and marigold and a great many other plants to a lesser extent.

Transposable element

Likewise, the first TE to be molecularly isolated was from a plant (Snapdragon).

Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Principal agricultural products in Tuscaloosa County have included hay, corn, cotton, soybeans, wheat and snapdragons.


Floral symmetry

Charles Darwin explored peloria in Antirrhinum (snapdragon) while researching the inheritance of floral characteristics for his The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.


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