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1 MAY 08 by
 Cass
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Arno, I've read that certain garden plants with unique coloration were purposely infected with a virus to obtain leaf variegation. I am not talking about RMV, but rather other woody ornamentals. I have to wonder if that is the case with R. multiflora watsoniana.
As an American, I am never pleased by variegated foliage on roses. My response is colored by my perception so much of the germplasm of American cultivars of the past 80 years are polluted by RMV.
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2 MAY 08 by
Arno
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Hi Cass!
Interesting view ... I even did't know about that, so far and now I understand, that this would be a serious point, if one looks to breed a very good commercial variety for the USA, - and I also think that then, lots of people could see it in your kind of view, too. But I am not a commercial breeder, its just my hobby and I am an amateur.
But I don't think of a virus, as the pattern is too regularely and if the "symptom" is exceptionally stable and quite regularely in its way, also in totally different and extreme climate situations, a virus is not the best explanation for those variegata phenotypes, I think ... .
OK for me these variegatas (we discuss them here, in english) are also new, as I found a mutation of Eliza here in my garden:
http://www.rosehybridizers.org/forum/message.php?topid=16347&rc=29&ui=1808397568
By the way here is a picture with the leaf symptoms produced by a Rose Mosaic Virus:
http://www.apsnet.org/online/archive/mosaic.htm
Greetings!
Arno
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