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Rosa damascena Mill is the most important scented rose species cultivated for rose oil production. Rosa bourboniana L. (Edward rose), a related species, is popular on account of its longer blooming period and ease of propagation. With an aim to combine the oil quality of R. damascena and recurrent flowering habit of R. bourboniana, two cultivars (Jwala and Himroz) of R. damascena were crossed with R. bourboniana. The F1 hybrids obtained were evaluated using morphological, random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and microsatellite (SSR) markers
Published in "Scientia Horticulturae" 122 (2009) pp. 258–263, by Kiran Kaul *, S. Karthigeyan, D. Dhyani, Navtej Kaur, R.K. Sharma, P.S. Ahuja