The fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea causes grey mould, a commercially damaging disease
of strawberry. This pathogen affects fruit in the field, storage, transport and market. The …

Strawberry, a small fruit crop of great importance throughout the world, has been considered
a model plant system for Rosaceae, and is susceptible to a large variety of phytopathogenic …

Silicon application can improve productivity outcomes for salt stressed plants. Here, we
describe how strawberry plants respond to treatments including various combinations of salt …

Background Recently, DNA methylation was proposed to regulate fleshy fruit ripening.
Fleshy fruits can be distinguished by their ripening process as climacteric fruits, such as …

Whole-genome duplications are radical evolutionary events that have driven speciation and
adaptation in many taxa. Higher-order polyploids have complex histories often including …

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

Allo-octoploid cultivated strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa) originated through a combination
of polyploid and homoploid hybridization, domestication of an interspecific hybrid lineage …

Two main categories of flowering and fruiting habits exist in strawberry: 1) seasonal
flowering (SF) genotypes which produce only one flush of flowering and fruiting in the …

Berries are a relevant source of micronutrients and nonessential phytochemicals, such as
polyphenol compounds, that play a synergistic and cumulative role in human health …

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 …