Research

The Development of Roses with Disease Resistance

• Importance
• Major Diseases in the Humid South East USA
• Other Common Diseases
• Field Evaluation of Roses
• Breeding Approaches for Disease Resistance
• Background
• Natural Biology of Rose Species
• Breeding in the 19th century
• Traditional Breeding Approach for Landscape Roses
• Screening
• Traditional Black Spot Resistance Breeding Program
• Development of New Germplasm
• Use of Rose Species
• Basic Flow of the Breeding Program at Texas A&M University
• Breeding Cycle
• What Happens When You Make a Cross?
• Rose Transformation and Regeneration
• Tissue Culture Propagation of Rose Species and Hybrids
• Rose Cytogenetics Reserach
• Isozymes and Molecular Markers
• Detective Work with Markers
• Taxonomic Relationships Among Rose Species
• Development of a Genetic Map for Rose
• Gene Identification for Rose