The strawberry is one of the world's most popular fruits, providing humans with vitamins,
fibers, and antioxidants. Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa) is an allo-octoploid and …

Fruits of Fragaria species usually have an appealing bright red color due to the
accumulation of anthocyanins, water-soluble flavonoid pigments. Octoploid cultivated …

The fruits of diploid and octoploid strawberry (Fragaria spp) show substantial natural
variation in color due to distinct anthocyanin accumulation and distribution patterns …

Strawberry is an emerging model for studying polyploid genome evolution and rapid
domestication of fruit crops. Here we report haplotype-resolved genomes of two wild …

Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa) is one of our youngest domesticates, originating
in early eighteenth-century Europe from spontaneous hybrids between wild allo-octoploid …

Hybridization brings together chromosome sets from two or more distinct progenitor species.
Genome duplication associated with hybridization, or allopolyploidy, allows these …

Chromosome numbers have been widely used to describe the most fundamental genomic
attribute of an organism or a lineage. Although providing strong phylogenetic signal …

Highlights•Stolons and rhizomes are specialized stems for vegetative reproduction in many
plant species.•Stolons and rhizomes enhance survival as well as invasiveness.•Diploid wild …

The cultivated strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa) is an allo-octoploid species, originating
nearly 300 years ago from wild progenitors from the Americas. Since that time the strawberry …

Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa) has a brief history of less than 300 yr, beginning
with the hybridization of octoploids Fragaria chiloensis and Fragaria virginiana. Here we …