Microsatellite analysis of Damask rose (Rosa damascena Mill.) accessions from various regions in Iran reveals multiple genotypes

Abstract

Background: Damask roses (Rosa damascena Mill.) are mainly used for essential oil production. Previous studies have indicated that all production material in Bulgaria and Turkey consists of only one genotype. Nine polymorphic microsatellite markers were used to analyze the genetic diversity of 40 accessions of R. damascena collected across major and minor rose oil production areas in Iran.

Rosa Damascena—Genetic Resources and Capacity Building for Molecular Breeding

“…Rosa damascena -cultivation for rose oil production, current status of the available genetic resources it has recently been reported by several authors that the worldwide production of rose oil is based on a single or very few genotypes of R. damascena Mill (3,6,9,29,43,46,47). First, Agaoglu et al (3) and Baydar et al (9) analyzed the oil rose genetic resources in Turkey and could not find difference between the local accessions using RAPD, AFlP and SSR markers.…”

“…Indeed, Pirseyedi et al (43) reported high level of diversity among 12 accessions collected from different regions in iran using AFlP markers. later in 2007 Babaei et al (6) analysed the diversity among 40 accessions from 28 provinces in Iran using 9 SSR loci. the clustering analysis revealed 9 different groups of which the largest one consisting of 27 accessions possesses the same genotype as the R. damascena accessions in Bulgaria and Turkey.…”

Comparative GC/MS Analysis of Rose Flower and Distilled Oil Volatiles of The Oil Bearing RoseRosa Damascena

“…in the past several years it has been demonstrated by several authors that the world production of rose oil is based on a single or a very few genotypes of the world famous oil bearing rose Rosa damascena (1,2,4,11,14). The whole production of rose oil in Bulgaria and Turkey, the two main world producers of rose oil, is based on a single main genotype which has been vegetatively propagated for centuries (1,4,14).…”

Evaluation, Genetic Diversity, Recent Development of Distillation Method, Challenges and Opportunities ofRosa damascena: A Review

“…Afterwards much diversity were found throughout the production area of Iran 8,38,45 . The existence of multiple genotypes is found within R. damascena 45 . From the previous findings, we can conclude that Iran is the possible centre of diversity for R. damascena.…”