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 ...

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

EAST LANSING, Mich. - 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 ...

Polyploid genomes, formed through repeated whole-genome duplication and hybridization, underpin the evolution of many important crops, yet their internal structure often remains unresolved when ...