Commercial Floriculture

Breeding of Roses

• Creation of a new form of a plant is truly very fascinating, creating a new rose is not different but creating a good new rose is a matter which requires special skills, tools etc.

1. To create novelties with different colour pigment.
2. To introduce the fragrance and extend the vase life.
3. Resistance to vase water bacteria.
4. Resistance to beetles and caterpillars.
5. Resistance to mildew and black spot
6. Resistance to whitefly, red spider mites and thrips.
7. Resistance to root knot bacteria.
8. Resistance to root knot nematode
9. Breeding in rootstock with increased vigour. 1
10. Cultivars that root more easily.
11. Cultivars that are thorn less.
12. Resistance to mechanical damage in harvest and transport. (i.e. withstanding long transport by surfaces, air or water )
13. High yielding varieties/cultivars.
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