Iranian Biologists Improve Productivity of Rose
9:29 - January 31, 2025

Iranian Biologists Improve Productivity of Rose

TEHRAN (ANA)- Iranian researchers succeeded in improving the productivity of rose and its wider use in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and health industries.
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"Phytochemical, molecular study and pollination incompatibility in a number of rose genotypes and their hybrids" is the title of Hamid Ahadi's doctoral thesis, which he completed with the support of the National Science Foundation of Iran.

“Considering the importance of rose essential oil in the perfumery and food industries, the exports of this valuable product can significantly contribute to the country's economy. Therefore, the improvement of rose to achieve new varieties with high-quality essential oil percentage is very important,” said Ahadi.

“In this project, in addition to the phytochemical study of selected genotypes, targeted hybridization was carried out to achieve superior hybrids, and transcriptome studies to identify genes related to essential oil production,” he added.

“The results of this research can take a big step towards the classical and molecular improvement of Rose,” Ahadi said.

In a relevant development in 2023, the nanobubble generators produced in a technological company in Iran had also increased the number of rose buds and reduced the consumption of fertilizers and fungicides in a hydroponic greenhouse for growing roses.

Engineer Akbari, who has used a nanobubble generator manufactured by an Iranian technological company in his greenhouse for growing roses, underlined the good performance of the device and its positive effects on growing roses.

"We used to grow roses in the form of soil cultivation but two years ago, we used the hydroponic cultivation method due to its advantages compared to soil cultivation,” he said.

Akbari stated that many fungi and bacteria were removed in the hydroponic rose greenhouse by using the nanobubble generator, saying, “The nanobubble generator has increased the number of buds in the cultivation process and reduced the application of fertilizers to a minimum and the amount of foliar spraying has reduced to a quarter.”

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