Dried petunia plant

1983

Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
Washington, DC, United States

More than 30 years ago, teams of scientists in university and corporate labs pioneered techniques to alter plant genes. One group at Monsanto experimented with the ancestor of the petunia pictured here. Dried petunia plant derived from Monsanto’s first genetically-engineered petunias, 1983. 2014.3114.01

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Title: Dried petunia plant
Date Created: 1983
Subject Keywords: Lemelson Center, Invention, Inventive Minds, Inventing Green, Biotechnology, Plants, Flowers, Monsanto, Smithsonian, Genetic Engineering

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