Breeding fruit varieties could take more than a decade, as trees take years to mature and bear fruit. But where breeders would have drawn largely on experience to make this cross-breeding ...

Florida produces about 11 percent of the nation’s strawberries, and most of the berries grow during the winter.

Another study delved into the genetic inheritance of these aromatic compounds in cultivated strawberries. By analyzing an F1 population from two breeding lines, researchers identified numerous ...

Bot h varieties are on the so-called Red List of wild plants in the Netherlands. The current strawberry is the result of a cross-breeding European and American varieties. In 1622, strawberries were ...

The University of California system has long run a strawberry-breeding program to boost the industry. As Dana Goodyear described in The New Yorker, the operation “is Driscoll’s antithesis ...