Rose Rosette Disease: A New Disease of Roses in Florida

This document is PP317, one of a series of the Department of Plant Pathology, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date May 2015. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

Binoy Babu, post-doctoral research associate, Department of Plant Pathology, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center; Mathews L. Paret, assistant professor, Department of Plant Pathology, UF/IFAS NFREC; Timothy S. Schubert, plant pathologist, Department of Plant Industry (DPI), Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Service (FDACS); Carlye Baker, plant pathologist, DPI, FDACS; Gary Knox, professor, Department of Environmental Horticulture, UF/IFAS NFREC; Fanny Iriarte, plant disease diagnostician, UF/IFAS NFREC; James Aldrich, senior biological scientist, Department of Environmental Horticulture, UF/IFAS NFREC; Laura Ritchie, senior biological scientist, Department of Plant Pathology, UF/IFAS NFREC; Carrie L. Harmon, director, Department of Plant Pathology, Plant Diagnostic Center; and Svetlana Y. Folimonova, assistant professor, Department of Plant Pathology; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.