/smithlab/ en /smithlab/2025/08/01/deep-look-petal-colors <span>A deep look into petal colors</span> <span><span>Stacey Dewitt Smith</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-08-01T15:35:15-06:00" title="Friday, August 1, 2025 - 15:35">Fri, 08/01/2025 - 15:35</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/smithlab/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2025-08/heterotheca.png?h=8d773b7f&amp;itok=SaZ0u8Os" width="1200" height="800" alt="Heterothecapetalcells"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/smithlab/taxonomy/term/20"> newsfeed </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/smithlab/taxonomy/term/12" hreflang="en">Newsfeed</a> <a href="/smithlab/taxonomy/term/44" hreflang="en">student</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 1"> <div class="ucb-article-text d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>The Smith lab was lucky to host two local high school students, Meghan Ogilvie and Sam Hughes, to work with us on the new flower-fruit color project. Meghan and Sam learned how to painstakingly remove the petal epidermis and took fabulous images where we can see anthocyanins in vacuoles and carotenoids in chromoplasts. &nbsp;They won most visually appealing poster at the end of semester session for the CU Science Discovery program. Congrats, Sam and Meghan!</p></div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-below"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle large_image_style"> <img loading="lazy" src="/smithlab/sites/default/files/styles/large_image_style/public/2025-08/PosterSession2.jpg?itok=wz6sRvli" width="1500" height="1038" alt="Poster session"> </div> <span class="media-image-caption"> <p>Left to right: Aaina, Elise, Meghan, Jack and Sam.</p> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>Sam and Meghan shared their research documenting the pigments stored inside flower petals.</div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:35:15 +0000 Stacey Dewitt Smith 520 at /smithlab