NOTE! the March meeting will begin at 1:00 to accommodate our speaker’s flight time.
Please join us on Sunday, March 6, 2022, to hear Ancrew Barocco, Director of Breeding at The Antique Rose Emporium, cover the philosophy, science, genetics and techniques on how to be better rose hybridizer.
Andrew Barocco is also a graduate student under Dr. David H. Byrne, a Professor who holds the Basye Endowed Chair in Rose Genetics at the Horticultural Sciences department at Texas A&M University.
Andrew grew up in the Acadiana region of Southern Louisiana where he was strongly influenced by the Cajun culture and his Cajun heritage. He graduated from Louisiana State University in 2016 with an undergraduate degree in Horticulture.
He moved to Texas in 2017 to pursue his graduate degree under Dr. Byrne. His research is to determine the graft transferability of resistance to the Rose Rosette Virus. He also is interested in making wide and difficult species crosses in order to introgress new and valuable traits into commercial germplasm. In the future, he plans to double the chromosomes of promising Rose Rosette Virus resistant diploid species roses, thereby possibly increasing their fertility. Not long after moving to Texas, he began work at The Antique Rose Emporium. There, he took up the reins of reinvigorating the breeding program and being the new production manager.
The March meeting of the Nashville Rose Society will be held at the Ayers Academic Center (Rooms C & D) at Belmont University, 1515 Wedgewood Ave, Nashville, TN 37212, just off Wedgewood Avenue. Ayers Academic Center is Building #8 on the Belmont campus map, and is the building next to the Inman Center where the Frist Lecture Hall is located (location of previous NRS meetings).
Parking: The Ayers Academic Center is located at the corner of Wedgewood and 15th avenues on the northern front of campus. The entrance to the parking garages for both buildings is the same as we used last year. There are two elevator banks in the garage underneath the Ayers Academic Center – the South and North elevators. Members should park by, then use, the North elevators to the 4th floor. These open up directly across from our meeting room – which is Ayers C & D. It is not easy to find the meeting room from the South elevators!
If you wish to attend virtually, please see Marty’s email to NRS members. If you would like to attend as a virtual guest, please submit your request on the Ask a Consulting Rosarian form on the website.