Amazing Scientists Successfully Grow A Rose Without Thorns

A Rose Without Thorns? Please, nobody let Bret Michaels know.

Unbelievable news: A rose has been grown without any thorns. American scientists say the breakthrough could lead to new products in supermarkets.

Red roses first appeared in Greek Mythology when Aphrodite pricked her foot on a thorn, spilling blood on a white rose. And tell me, what poet has not used the thorn at once or another?

It's more than roses that have caused us pain for all these years. Many plants have dangerous spikes, technically known as prickles. Prickles have evolved independently in species across the plant kingdom, and their main function is to ward off Plant-eating animals and bugs.

The research team, whose findings were published in the Journal of Science, wondered if related genes are responsible for prickles on multiple plants over millions of years.

The team worked with the New York Botanical Garden to examine specimens with and without prickles.

Researchers at Cornell University used genome editing to eliminate prickles, which takes all the fun out of giving flowers to that special someone.

Released in 1988 a beautiful power ballad by Bret Michaels of Poison, "Every Rose Has It's Thorn."

It was released in October 1988 as the third single from Poison's second album, Open Up and Say... Ahh! The band's signature song, it is also their only number-one hit in the US, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks on December 24, 1988.

In an interview with VH1's Behind the Music, Bret Michaels said the inspiration for the song came from a night when he was in a laundromat in Dallas waiting for his clothes to dry and called his girlfriend on a pay phone. Michaels said he heard a male voice in the background and was devastated; he said he went into the laundromat and wrote "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" as a result.

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