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We are excited to begin the Sustainable Roses project thanks to the funding we received from the USDA Specialty Crop Research Initiative! We hope to develop disease-resistant roses and educate others on the dangers of rose rosette disease and black spot. 🌹agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2022/10/06/new…

Thank you to the Plateau Research and Education Center in Tennessee for hosting the phenotyping meeting last week! We had great discussions on the goals of this project and the results from our different experiments and analyses.

Thank you to Greenhouse Grower magazine for writing an article on our Sustainable Rose project! 🌹 It is very exciting to see so much interest in our work. Read the full article at the link below! greenhousegrower.com/production/res…

Check out our latest publication on rose cultivar genetics and genome sizes! Dr. David Byrne and other members of our team from NC State Horticultural Science worked together with the goal of determining relative genome sizes and ploidy levels. maxapress.com//article/doi/1…

Congrats to Dr. Ochoa-Corona and his lab at Oklahoma State University on their latest publication on using high-resolution melting to detect emaraviruses! You can read the article at the link below. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

We've made quite a few changes to our Combating Rose Rosette website! It now houses information about our newest project, Sustainable Roses (Sustainable Roses), as well as resources for identifying and controlling RRD. Check it out here! ➡ roserosette.org

Check out our latest publication! This article discusses the analysis of the genomic sequences of 95 RRV isolates and suggests that RRV isolates have more diversity than previously recognized. mdpi.com/2076-0817/12/5…

Our team at Oklahoma State University just sent us photos of the roses we planted in their testing plots last month! Some of them have already developed symptoms of black spot disease so these will help us in our research of this infection as well as other viruses. 🌹

Dr. Jeekin Lau and the rest of our team at TAMU Rose Breeding Program just published a new discovery in resistance to black spot and cercospora in two of our rose populations. Check out the abstract below! 🌹 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Check out our factsheets and other resources on RRD to learn what to look for and how our projects are working towards developing sustainable roses! Follow Sustainable Roses to get updates about our new project. roserosette.org/factsheets/

We are very excited to have the first official meeting for the Sustainable Roses project! You can read more about our work at the link below. roserosette.org

Thank you to everyone who attended! We are very excited about the future of this project. 🌹

Dr. Byrne was interviewed by Better Homes and Gardens to discuss why rose rosette disease is such a problem and what you can do to protect your garden. Read the full article at the link below! 🌹 #roses #RoseRosetteDisease bhg.com/rose-rosette-d…

Last November, we hosted a project meeting to present our research updates on issues related to RRD and black spot. You can watch each presentation at the link below! roserosette.org/meetingrecordi…