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Gene Map For Roses

Posted by peplill (My Page) on
Tue, Apr 25, 06 at 18:38

Being envolved in some other areas of life, gene mapping is proving to have some wonderful applications towards genetic disease identification and prevention. I took a brief look at the web and see there is some work being done on gene mapping the rose and there was mention of studies looking for the genes that give resistants to black spot.
Does anyone know the progress of this research? Any current references for studies concerning gene mapping for black spot?
Deb


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RE: Gene Map For Roses

You are way ahead of me but I was so intrigued by the question I went looking myself.

A rose progeny to study this trait has been produced by David Byrne and it is currently being used to develop a genetic map at Clemson University - a Genomics Institute in South Carolina. I couldn't access any info and there may be none published for the public domain.

Found out some stuff though. They have done some trialling and come up with this list -

Black Spot – resistant:
Hybrid tea: ‘Pride N Joy’
Floribunda: ‘Sexy Rexy’
Grandiflora: ‘Prima Donna’
Black Spot and Powdery Mildew-moderately resistant:
Hybrid tea: ‘Duet,’ ‘Eiffel Tower,’ ‘Grand Slam,’ ‘Jamaica,’ ‘Matterhorn’
Floribunda: ‘Golden Slipper,’ ‘Saratoga’
Grandiflora: ‘Camelot,’ ‘John S. Armstrong,’ ‘Pink Parfait,’ ‘Queen Elizabeth’
Shrub roses: ‘All That Jazz,’ ‘Carefree Wonder’
Black Spot, Powdery Mildew and Cercospora Leaf Spot –resistant:
Rugosa roses: ‘Blanc Double de Coubert,’ ‘Fru Dagmar Hastrup’ (‘Frau Dagmar Hartopp’) ‘Rugosa Alba,’ ‘Topaz Jewel’
Alba rose: ‘Alba Semi-Plena’

This came from Ohio University - under ideal conditions of leaf wetness, humidity and temperature the spores can germinate and infect in 1 day, cause symptoms in 4 to 5 days, and produce new spores that can infect additional leaf, flower and cane tissue within 10 to 11 days. Spores are easily spread to new locations by air currents.

This from the University of Maine - the spores must be wet for at least 7 hours before they can germinate
disease develops most rapidly at about 75F.

The site below has a detailed list of blackspot resistant roses and includes those that are highly susceptible.

You may already know all this but I didn't - thanks for posting an interesting question.

A site that may be of interest - http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-0505/


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RE: Gene Map For Roses

This is interesting but the site http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-0505/
I think has been put together by people who are not rose growers from other sources. They list Peace as blackspot susceptible, which it is, and then have it in a table as resistant! And Mme Isaac Pereire as moderately resistant? Not in my experience.


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RE: Gene Map For Roses

Could this be the reason - from the site below - updated 4 September 2004.

Anyone who has ever grown a rose knows that blackspot adapts to the chemicals that we use and has a way of getting our favorite rose no matter what we do to try to stop it. Blackspot is not as mysterious as it seems. Through research, it has been found that different races of the disease are found in different geographic locations, and a plant that is resistant to blackspot in one area may be very susceptible to the race of D. rosea found in another area. Commerce is also partly responsible for the transport of disease from one part of the country to another. Hence, your perfect rose may have picked up a new strain of blackspot from a new rose.
And you may be interested in this -

Over two years of field testing at two sites in Texas: College Station (David Byrne) and Overton (Dr. H. Brent Pemberton) of Floribundas, Grandifloras, Hybrid Teas, Shrubs, Rugosa Hybrids, Species/hybrids, and Basye roses showed a wide difference in the reaction to black spot which ranges from death of the plant within two years (‘Peace’) to no spots at all (Rosa roxburghii)

I am way out of my depth here - haven't a scientific bone in my body - find the parts I can understand interesting that's all. For all I know this is common knowledge to most of you - would be to people like Lozza I know.

A site that might be of interest -
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/rose/mapping.htm


 
 

 

 


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