What is a strawberry's octoploid?When enjoying the sweetness and aroma of a strawberry, few people are aware that there are ...

The modern cultivated strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) originates from interspecific hybridization between two octoploid wild species: F. virginiana and F. chiloensis. However, the differences in ...

Researchers have discovered that the cultivated garden strawberry’s complex evolutionary history started long ago on opposite sides of the world. Until now, researchers have known little about the ...

Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) is one of our youngest domesticates, originating from interspecific hybrids in the early eighteenth century between geographically isolated allo-octoploid ...

Until now, little has been known about the evolutionary origins of the cultivated garden strawberry. Whereas most species, including humans, are diploid with two copies of the genome – one copy from ...