Thorns, mistakenly referred to as "thorns" for roses, have appeared in various plant varieties over hundreds of millions of ...

The findings not only open the door for scientists looking to create prickle-free variants but also provide insight into the ...

According to Greek mythology, red roses first appeared when Aphrodite pricked her foot on a thorn, spilling blood on a white rose. Since then, roses' thorns have captured the imaginations of ...

A new study has found how a rose and other plants like a tomato and eggplant came to get their prickles. The discovery could help engineer new thorn-free variants.

The “prickles,” as botanists call them, evolved in roses and other plants thanks to a single gene, a new study found. ... There is no rose without thorns, the old saying goes.

We also used a virus to silence the expression of a closely related gene in roses, yielding a rose without thorns. In natural settings, prickles defend plants against grazing herbivores.

Every rose has its thorns, and other common plants like rice, ... Prickles on roses and other plants evolved independently at least 28 times over 400 million years, according to the study.

Roses do not have thorns; they have prickles. But there ARE “thorns” in the rose garden. Their names are botrytis, black spot, rust, downy mildew, anthracnose and cerospora leaf spot. They are ...