Molecular bases of strawberry fruit quality traits: Advances, challenges, and opportunities

Z Liu, T Liang, C Kang - Plant Physiology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Patterns, mechanisms, and consequences of homoeologous exchange in allopolyploid angiosperms: a genomic and epigenomic perspective

SK Deb, PP Edger, JC Pires, MR McKain - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Allopolyploids result from hybridization between different evolutionary lineages coupled with
genome doubling. Homoeologous chromosomes (chromosomes with common shared …

Haplotype-resolved genomes of wild octoploid progenitors illuminate genomic diversifications from wild relatives to cultivated strawberry

X **, H Du, C Zhu, H Wan, F Liu, J Ruan, JP Mower… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Deciphering the genetic architecture of fruit color in strawberry

B Denoyes, A Prohaska, J Petit… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Fruits of Fragaria species usually have an appealing bright red color due to the
accumulation of anthocyanins, water-soluble flavonoid pigments. Octoploid cultivated …

High-quality haplotype-resolved genome assembly of cultivated octoploid strawberry

J Mao, Y Wang, B Wang, J Li, C Zhang… - Horticulture …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa), a perennial herb belonging to the family
Rosaceae, is a complex octoploid with high heterozygosity at most loci. However, there is no …

Genomic signatures of strawberry domestication and diversification

Z Fan, VM Whitaker - The Plant Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Genetic gains underpinning a little-known strawberry Green Revolution

MJ Feldmann, DDA Pincot, GS Cole… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The annual production of strawberry has increased by one million tonnes in the US and 8.4
million tonnes worldwide since 1960. Here we show that the US expansion was driven by …

Harnessing underutilized gene bank diversity and genomic prediction of cross usefulness to enhance resistance to Phytophthora cactorum in strawberry

NP Jiménez, MJ Feldmann, RA Famula… - The plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The development of strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa Duchesne ex Rozier) cultivars resistant
to Phytophthora crown rot (PhCR), a devastating disease caused by the soil‐borne …

Towards smart and sustainable development of modern berry cultivars in Europe

E Senger, S Osorio, K Olbricht, P Shaw… - The plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fresh berries are a popular and important component of the human diet. The demand for
high‐quality berries and sustainable production methods is increasing globally, challenging …

Dynamics of accessible chromatin regions and subgenome dominance in octoploid strawberry

C Fang, N Jiang, SJ Teresi, AE Platts… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Subgenome dominance has been reported in diverse allopolyploid species, where genes
from one subgenome are preferentially retained and are more highly expressed than those …