Basye Rose Program
The high humidity and heat of College Station, Texas fosters the pathogens causing powdery mildew and blackspot. Local water contains high amounts of sodium producing a concrete-like structure in our already hard clay pan soil and a pH as high as 13 in some areas of Brazos County. The average rose struggles. Within this framework, Dr. Robert Basye established the seed for the Basye Chair in Rose Breeding with his tremendous gift of leadership, germplasm collection and vision for the future of roses. While pursuing a career as a professor of mathematics at Texas A&M, Dr. Basye bred roses for over 50 years. He sought to produce roses that were genetically resistant to black spot disease, and his work lives on through the Endowed Program.
Research: The Development of Roses with Disease Resistance
- Importance
- Major Diseases in the Humid South East USA
- Other Common Diseases
- Field Evaluation of Roses
- Breeding Approaches for Disease Resistance
- Background
- Natural Biology of Rose Species
- Breeding in the 19th century
- Traditional Breeding Approach for Landscape Roses
- Screening
- Traditional Black Spot Resistance Breeding Program
- Development of New Germplasm
- Use of Rose Species
- Basic Flow of the Breeding Program at Texas A&M University
- Breeding Cycle
- What Happens When You Make a Cross?
- Rose Transformation and Regeneration
- Tissue Culture Propagation of Rose Species and Hybrids
- Rose Cytogenetics Reserach
- Isozymes and Molecular Markers
- Detective Work with Markers
- Taxonomic Relationships Among Rose Species
- Development of a Genetic Map for Rose
- Gene Identification for Rose