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- Title
On the Origin of Cultivated Roses: DNA Authentication of the Bourbon Rose Founding Pedigree.
- Authors
Alioua, Abdelmalek; Heitzler, Pascal
- Abstract
Rose flowers have been cultivated for their fragrance and their garden value since ancient times. Very ancient cultivars became famous locally for their specific use, and competitive horticultural activities progressively established, leading, with time, to landraces with limited polymorphism. The most famous examples are the oil-bearing Damask roses from Iran and the Yueyue Fen garden strain from China. In 1817, a new rose, allegedly a hybrid from the two previous lineages, was discovered at Reunion. From this plant, as early as the 1820s, a new founder group, the Bourbon roses, was developed in France, which immediately stirred up deep passions among botanists and skilled enthusiasts. Today, more than 30,000 named cultivars have been raised either as garden and landscape plants for the cut rose market or as indoor pot plants. The market handles billions of euros a year, making the rose the most economically important crop worldwide. Following the inheritance of SSR DNA markers, we here propose a reconstitution of the very early lineage of Bourbon roses, clarifying one of the major steps, if not the major one, that links these very ancient heritage roses to modern roses.
- Subjects
IRAN; REUNION; ROSES; ORNAMENTAL plants; HOUSE plants; GENETIC markers; LANDSCAPE gardening
- Publication
International Journal of Plant Biology, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 4, p1117
- ISSN
2037-0156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijpb14040082