Article (magazine)  (2004)  Page(s) 314.  
 
RAPD-PCR analysis was used to answer questions regarding the identity of numerous varieties of roses.... 
The suspected pollen parent is ‘Fragrant Cloud’, a rose grown in close proximity to ‘Carefree Beauty’. DNA analysis of all three varieties was used to investigate parentage. If ‘Xanadu’ resulted from a cross-pollination of ‘Carefree Beauty’ with ‘Fragrant Cloud’, then half of the bands resulting from the ‘Xanadu’ RAPD-PCR analysis would match with ‘Carefree Beauty’, and the other half would match with ‘Fragrant Cloud’. As seen in Fig. 1B, every band in ‘Xanadu’ was found in ‘Carefree Beauty’, and, while some bands did match up between ‘Xanadu’ and ‘Fragrant Cloud’, there were no bands that were unique to these two varieties and not to ‘Carefree Beauty’. Therefore, it appears that ‘Xanadu’ is not a hybrid of ‘Fragrant Cloud’, but a result of a self-pollination of ‘Carefree Beauty


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Magazine  (Feb 2003)  Page(s) 38.  
 
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