title: Microsatellite analysis of Rosa damascena Mill. accessions reveals genetic similarity between genotypes used for rose oil production and old Damask rose varieties.
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.
authors.affiliation: AgroBioInstitute, Bulgaria, Sofia 1164 Bld. Dragan, Tsankov 8, Bulgaria, ivan_atanassov@abv.bg.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rusanov
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kovacheva
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vosman
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rajapakse
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Atanassov
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Atanassov
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D005060:Europe; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005838:Genotype; D007194:India; D007492:Iran; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D027826:Rosa / Q000235:genetics*; D013045:Species Specificity