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The doorway to enhanced productivity.

Publication: Agricultural Research
Publication Date: 01-AUG-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The doorway to enhanced productivity.(Gender Evolution in Strawberries)

Article Excerpt
It's no surprise that strawberries are the most popular type of berry fruit in the world. This sweet, juicy, refreshing fruit is the perfect snack or end to any meal, especially on a hot summer day. But have you ever wished you could eat locally grown strawberries all year round? Well, new Agricultural Research Service research brings us one step closer.

Kim Lewers, a plant geneticist with the ARS Genetic Improvement of Fruits and Vegetables Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, and plant evolutionary ecologist Tia-Lynn Ashman, a colleague from the University of Pittsburgh's School of Arts and Sciences, discovered a model system for studying sex chromosomes in plants. This discovery opens up new opportunities for developing novel strawberry cultivars with increased fruit yields all year long.

Lewers and Ashman set out to determine the genetic control of reproductive dysfunction in strawberries because of its importance to fruit yield and quality. Reproductive dysfunction occurs when strawberry flowers do not...

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