In a group of rose plants, some individuals have light yellow flowers and others have dark yellow flowers. In this group, the gene for the flower color trait has two alleles. The allele F is for light yellow flowers, and the allele f is for dark yellow flowers.

A certain rose plant is from this group. This rose plant's phenotype for the flower color trait is dark yellow flowers. This plant's genotype for the flower color gene is ff.
Based on this information, complete the following statement

The genotype of this rose plant is homozygous for the ______ allele.