What is the scientific composition of rose petals? Where can I find the answer?

Question

I'm conducting an experiment involving research about the scientific composition of rose petals.

Answer 1

Chromosomes of Garden Roses
http://www.rdrop.com/~paul/genecount.html
'Scented Flora of the World' by Roy Genders is a good resource for the chemistry of fragrance.
The senescence & abscission of rose petals
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/76/5/539
http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/44/5/957
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=426197
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1034/j.1399-3054.1999.100209.x?cookieSet=1&journalCode=ppl

Micro-Scopic Structure of Rose Petal.
http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200017/000020001700A0001934.php
http://books.google.com/books?id=PpQDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP52&lpg=PP52&dq=%22micro+scopic%22+structure+of+rose+petal&source=web&ots=l6aaXOPWqe&sig=hcCjXo0fUPblbWf2rm6hNzexFug#PPP1,M1
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000224/science.htm
http://denniskunkel.com/DK/Plants/96988A.html


Fragrance
http://boisdejasmin.typepad.com/_/2006/02/fragrance_ingre.html
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2621.2006.tb12404.x?journalCode=jfds
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=429336
http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/full/140/1/18
http://www.bio-computing.org/showabstract.php?pmid=12368489
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/296/5577/2327
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/fragrances/fragrance.html
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/107062051/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Fragrance extraction kit
http://www.physlink.com/estore/cart/ParfumeScienceKit.cfm

www.collectivewisdominitiative.org/ papers/COTE/COTE_story_rose.pdf -

http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA3/STHTM/FORMC/FORMC1.HTM
http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200017/000020001700A0001934.php

Bibliography for rose related biotech & breeding
http://www.geocities.com/rosegardenbd/roseinfo/Genetics.htm
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1832195