Microsatellite analysis of Rosa damascena Mill. accessions reveals genetic similarity between genotypes used for rose oil production and old Damask rose varieties

K. Rusanov, N. Kovacheva, B.J. Vosman, L. Zhang, S. Rajapakse, A. Atanassov, I. Atanassov

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    Abstract

    Damask roses are grown in several European and Asiatic countries for rose oil production. Twenty-six oil-bearing Rosa damascena Mill. accessions and 13 garden Damask roses were assayed by molecular markers. Microsatellite genotyping demonstrated that R. damascena Mill. accessions from Bulgaria, Iran, and India and old European Damask rose varieties possess identical microsatellite profiles, suggesting a common origin. At the same time, the data indicated that modern industrial oil rose cultivation is based on a very narrow genepool and that oil rose collections contain many genetically identical accessions. The study of long-term vegetative propagation of the Damask roses also reveals high somatic stability for the microsatellite loci analyzed
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)804-809
    JournalTheoretical and Applied Genetics
    Volume111
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2005

    Keywords

    • black poplar
    • markers
    • aflp
    • diversity
    • identification
    • cultivars
    • hybrida
    • turkey
    • tree
    • rapd

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