Strawberries: History and Origins
Here is the fact that surprises almost everyone: the strawberry in your supermarket punnet is younger than the United States. It is not an ancient crop domesticated in some distant valley thousands of years ago. It is Fragaria × ananassa, an accidental hybrid that came into existence in France in the 1750s, when a Chilean strawberry carried home by a French military spy was planted in Brittany beside a North American one and the two crossed. Its parentage was worked out by a teenager, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, who published the answer at nineteen. Before that, Europeans ate a completely different fruit: the tiny, intensely perfumed woodland strawberry (F. vesca) that Roman poets already knew, and the musky F. moschata of medieval gardens. This page traces the documented record — Roman texts, medieval garden accounts, religious painting, an eighteenth-century voyage of espionage, a nineteenth-century breeding boom, and the twentieth-century selection for firmness that made the fruit travel further and, by common consent, taste less. Where the record is solid we say so. Where a story is tradition rather than evidence, we label it.
Table of Contents
- A Fruit Younger Than the United States
- The Wild Strawberries of the Old World
- Medieval Gardens, Medicine, and Sacred Painting
- The Virginia Strawberry Crosses the Atlantic
- Amédée-François Frézier and the Chilean Strawberry
- The Accident in Brittany
- Duchesne: The Teenager Who Solved It
- What Is in the Name — and Why It Is Not a Berry
- Breeding for the Railway
- What the Genome Says Now
- The Modern Industry
- Research Papers and References
- Connections
- Featured Videos
A Fruit Younger Than the United States
Most of the fruits and vegetables on a supermarket shelf have long pedigrees. Wheat, barley, lentils, olives, grapes, apples and figs were all domesticated thousands of years ago, and their history is a story of slow selection by farmers over dozens of centuries. The strawberry is not like that. The plant that produces every commercial strawberry grown anywhere in the world today — Fragaria × ananassa, the garden strawberry or pineapple strawberry — did not exist before the middle of the eighteenth century.
It is a hybrid, and a young one. Its two parents are both wild American species that never met in nature: Fragaria chiloensis, the beach strawberry of the Pacific coast of Chile and North America, and Fragaria virginiana, the meadow strawberry of eastern North America. They live roughly six thousand kilometres apart. The only way for them to cross was for humans to carry both to the same garden, and that is exactly what happened — in France, apparently by accident, some time in the 1750s.
This matters for reading everything that follows. When a Roman poet writes about strawberries, or a medieval painter puts strawberry plants at the feet of the Virgin Mary, or a fourteenth-century royal gardener plants a strawberry bed at the Louvre, none of them is talking about the fruit you buy. They are talking about a different, much smaller, far more fragrant fruit — the woodland strawberry, Fragaria vesca, which grows wild across Europe, Asia and North America and produces berries the size of a fingernail. The history of the strawberry is therefore really two histories: a long one about small wild fruit, and a short, sharp, well-documented one about the large hybrid that displaced it.
The Wild Strawberries of the Old World
Europe has always had strawberries, just not big ones. The dominant species is Fragaria vesca, the woodland or alpine strawberry, a low-growing perennial of forest edges, clearings and hedge banks across most of the continent and well into Asia. Its fruit is small — typically well under two centimetres — and its flavour is concentrated and aromatic in a way that most modern cultivars cannot match. Anyone who has eaten fraises des bois in France or wild Walderdbeeren in Germany has tasted what "strawberry" meant to Europeans for most of recorded history.
A second Old World species matters for what comes later: Fragaria moschata, the musk or hautbois strawberry, native to central Europe. It is larger than F. vesca, strongly perfumed — the "musk" of its name — and, importantly, it has separate male and female plants. That last detail turns out to be central to the eighteenth-century story, because it gave European gardeners a plant whose sexual behaviour they could observe.
Roman writers knew the wild strawberry and treated it as a modest pleasure rather than a crop. Virgil, in the third Eclogue, warns children gathering flowers and "strawberries growing on the ground" (humi nascentia fraga) that a snake lurks in the grass — a line that tells us the fruit was picked from the wild by ordinary people. Ovid includes "soft strawberries" (mollia fraga) among the foods of the mythical Golden Age in the Metamorphoses, when the earth gave food without cultivation. Pliny the Elder, in the Natural History, lists fraga among the things that grow of themselves on the ground.
The picture those three passages give is consistent and worth stating plainly: to the Romans, strawberries were a gathered wild food, not a garden crop, and there is no evidence of Roman strawberry cultivation or breeding. That is a real limit on how far the fruit's "ancient" credentials stretch.
Medieval Gardens, Medicine, and Sacred Painting
Cultivation — in the sense of deliberately digging up wild plants and growing them in beds — begins in the medieval period. The standard history of the crop, George M. Darrow's The Strawberry: History, Breeding and Physiology (1966), still the reference work in English, records that in 1368 the gardener Jean Dudoy planted a large bed of strawberries in the royal gardens of the Louvre for Charles V of France. The figure usually reported is 1,200 plants. These were wild F. vesca lifted from the woods, not a bred variety; medieval "cultivation" of strawberries meant transplanting and tending wild stock, and it stayed that way for centuries.
Medieval and early modern herbals treat the plant chiefly as a medicine, and mostly not the fruit. The leaves and the root were valued as astringents — used in gargles and washes for sore mouths and loose bowels — while the fruit and its distilled water were recommended for cooling fevers, for the complexion, and for what herbalists called "hot" conditions. This is a general pattern across the herbal tradition rather than the claim of one author, and it explains why strawberry appears in medical texts far more often than in cookery ones.
One frequently repeated story deserves a label. It is often said that Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) held that strawberries were unfit to eat because they grew close to the ground where snakes and toads crawled over them. The claim circulates widely in popular garden writing and is attributed to her Physica; it is best treated as a traditional attribution rather than a securely established quotation, and it is not evidence about what most medieval Europeans actually did — they clearly ate them.
Where the medieval record is unambiguous and genuinely rich is in painting. From the late fourteenth century onward, strawberry plants appear again and again in devotional art, and the symbolism is well documented by art historians. The trifoliate leaf was read as the Trinity; the white flower as purity and innocence; the red fruit as the blood of Christ or the martyrs; and the plant's habit of flowering and fruiting at the same time as a sign of the union of virtue and reward. Because the strawberry carries its seeds on the outside and has no stone or core, it was also read as blameless — a fruit with nothing hidden in it.
Specific examples are easy to point to. The Little Garden of Paradise (Paradiesgärtlein, c. 1410–1420, Städel Museum, Frankfurt) shows the Virgin in an enclosed garden with strawberry plants in flower and fruit at her feet. Strawberry plants grow in the foreground meadow of the Ghent Altarpiece (Jan and Hubert van Eyck, completed 1432). And Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1490–1510) is so full of oversized strawberries that early Spanish royal inventories referred to it by a fruit name rather than by its modern title — there the fruit reads not as purity but as the opposite, the sweet, brief, deceptive pleasure of the senses.
That double reading — purity in one painting, fleeting lust in another — is a good reminder that symbols are used, not fixed. What both uses share is the assumption that a viewer would instantly recognise a strawberry plant. It was familiar, and it was small.
The Virginia Strawberry Crosses the Atlantic
European colonists arriving in eastern North America were struck by the strawberries. Accounts from the early seventeenth century describe meadows so thick with fruit that the ground looked red, and the berries as larger and more abundant than anything at home. The species was Fragaria virginiana, the Virginia or scarlet strawberry, native from the eastern seaboard across much of the continent, and long gathered and used by Indigenous peoples of the region.
Plants were shipped back to Europe in the early 1600s, and F. virginiana established itself in European gardens over the course of the seventeenth century as the "scarlet strawberry." It was a genuine improvement on F. vesca for a grower: bigger fruit, better yields, and a plant that took to garden conditions. By the early eighteenth century it was a normal thing to find in a well-stocked European garden — which is precisely why it was on hand when the other parent arrived.
Amédée-François Frézier and the Chilean Strawberry
The second parent came from the Pacific coast of South America, and it came home in the luggage of a spy.
Amédée-François Frézier (1682–1773) was a French military engineer, mathematician and cartographer. In 1712 he was despatched to South America on the orders of the French crown to survey and map the Spanish coastal fortifications of Chile and Peru — intelligence work, conducted under the cover of a merchant traveller. He spent roughly two years on the coast, and he was a careful and curious observer of much more than gun emplacements. His account of the voyage, the Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux côtes du Chily et du Pérou, was published in Paris in 1716 and includes his notes on the plants and agriculture he saw.
Among them was a strawberry the Mapuche and Spanish settlers cultivated around Concepción in south-central Chile: Fragaria chiloensis. What astonished Frézier was the size. He described fruit as large as a walnut and sometimes as a hen's egg — grotesquely large by European standards, where a good strawberry was still the size of a fingertip. The plants were thick-leaved, leathery and glossy, adapted to coastal dune and cliff conditions.
He took plants with him. The homeward voyage was long — roughly six months — and he is said to have kept them alive by sharing his own water ration. Five plants survived and reached France in 1714. He gave some to Antoine de Jussieu at the Jardin du Roi in Paris, some remained at Brest where he landed, and at least one went to the ship's supply officer who had helped him keep them alive.
And then, for about forty years, almost nothing happened — because of a botanical problem nobody in France yet understood. Fragaria chiloensis does not have perfect flowers on every plant; the species carries separate sexes, and the clones long cultivated in Chile were female. Frézier had brought back five female plants, and cuttings of a female plant are all female. They grew vigorously, flowered handsomely, and set almost no fruit. To gardeners who assumed every flowering plant would fruit if treated well, the Chilean strawberry looked like a magnificent disappointment.
The Accident in Brittany
The place where the puzzle resolved itself was Brittany — specifically the district around Plougastel, near Brest, whose mild, damp Atlantic climate suited the Chilean plant and which remains a strawberry-growing region to this day. Growers there planted F. chiloensis in quantity, and, following ordinary garden practice, planted other strawberries alongside it: the musk strawberry F. moschata, and the scarlet Virginia strawberry F. virginiana.
That interplanting solved the fruiting problem by accident. Pollen from the neighbouring plants fertilised the female Chilean flowers, and the Chilean plants finally cropped. But the seedlings that came up from that fruit were something new. Where F. chiloensis had been pollinated by F. virginiana, the offspring combined the Chilean parent's size, firmness and glossy foliage with the Virginian parent's flavour, aroma and productivity — and, crucially, were self-fertile. They also carried a distinctive perfume that reminded people of pineapple.
The new plant appeared in French gardens around the 1750s and was called the fraisier ananas — the pineapple strawberry — for that aroma. It spread quickly, because it was obviously better than anything else available. What nobody knew was what it was. It had no wild home, no country of origin, and no name in any botanical system. That is the question a schoolboy answered.
Duchesne: The Teenager Who Solved It
Antoine Nicolas Duchesne was born in 1747 and grew up around the royal gardens at Versailles, where his father held a post in the royal buildings administration. He became interested in strawberries as a boy, and by his mid-teens he was doing serious work on them under the eye of Bernard de Jussieu.
The traditional account has him presenting a pot of the new pineapple strawberry to King Louis XV at Versailles in 1764, when he was sixteen. Two years later, in 1766, at the age of nineteen, he published Histoire naturelle des fraisiers — the natural history of strawberries — and it is a genuinely remarkable book for its author's age and its century.
Duchesne established several things at once.
- The pineapple strawberry is a hybrid. He identified the fraisier ananas as the offspring of the Chilean strawberry crossed with the Virginian one, which is the conclusion modern genetics confirms. He gave it the name Fragaria ananassa, and it is still Fragaria × ananassa today — the multiplication sign marking it as a hybrid.
- Strawberries have sexes, and hybrids can be made deliberately. He carried out controlled crosses — notably pollinating the musk strawberry F. moschata with F. chiloensis — and produced viable offspring. In an era when plant sexuality was still contested, doing this with a garden fruit and publishing it was a real contribution to the argument.
- Varieties have genealogies. His book contains a diagram tracing the descent of strawberry varieties from one another — a branching family tree of a single group of plants. It is one of the earliest such genealogical diagrams for the varieties of a species, and it predates Darwin's famous branching sketch by the better part of a century.
- Species boundaries are messier than the system allows. Working through the strawberries convinced him that the rigid species categories of his day did not describe what he saw in the garden, and he said so.
Duchesne went on to a long career in botany and horticulture and died in 1827. His strawberry book remains the foundation document of the crop's history, and the fact that a nineteen-year-old worked out the parentage of the world's most widely grown fruit crop — correctly, and with the right method — is one of the better stories in the history of botany.
What Is in the Name — and Why It Is Not a Berry
The genus name Fragaria comes from the Latin fraga, the word Virgil and Pliny used, which is generally connected to fragrans — fragrant. That is a fair description of a wild woodland strawberry. The species epithet ananassa is simply the pineapple, ananas, recording the aroma that struck eighteenth-century French gardeners.
The English word strawberry is genuinely unexplained. It is old — Old English strēawberige — and several theories compete. One connects straw to the sense "strewn," describing the way runners scatter the plant across the ground. Another points to the small seed-like specks on the fruit's surface, which resemble bits of chaff or straw. A third, the one most often repeated, credits the practice of mulching beds with straw — but the name is considerably older than any documented English mulching practice, which makes it the weakest of the three. A fourth suggests berries were threaded onto straws for sale. The honest position is that no explanation is established; if someone tells you flatly that strawberries are named after straw mulch, they are repeating folklore.
One more piece of pedantry that is actually interesting: a strawberry is not a berry. In botanical terms a berry is a fruit whose whole wall is fleshy and whose seeds sit inside — a grape, a tomato, a blueberry. In a strawberry, the sweet red flesh is the swollen receptacle, the tip of the flower stalk, and the roughly two hundred little specks on its surface are the actual fruits: dry, one-seeded achenes. That makes it an aggregate accessory fruit. This is not just trivia — the achenes carry a meaningful share of the fruit's ellagitannins, so the "seeds" are chemically as well as botanically the real fruit.
Breeding for the Railway
Once Duchesne had shown that strawberries could be crossed on purpose, breeding began in earnest, and the nineteenth century belonged to Britain. Michael Keens, a market gardener at Isleworth outside London, produced Keens' Imperial around 1806 and then Keens' Seedling in 1821, a variety large and productive enough that it stands behind a great many later cultivars. Thomas Andrew Knight, president of the Horticultural Society of London and a serious experimental breeder, raised Downton and Elton in the same period using deliberate controlled crosses.
North America followed. Charles M. Hovey of Boston introduced Hovey in 1834, generally credited as the first significant American strawberry cultivar produced by controlled breeding rather than by selecting a chance seedling. American horticulture then spent much of the 1840s and 1850s in a noisy public argument — remembered as the "strawberry wars" — over whether strawberry varieties really had separate sexes, with Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati insisting, correctly, that many did and that growers needed to plant pollinizers.
The twentieth century changed the crop more than the nineteenth did, and the driving force was transport. A strawberry is one of the most perishable things sold in a shop: it bruises, it moulds, it loses water, and it does not ripen further once picked. Selling strawberries beyond the reach of a morning's cart required fruit that could survive picking, packing, cooling, hundreds or thousands of kilometres of travel, and several days on a shelf. Breeders responded by selecting hard for firmness, uniform shape and colour, yield, disease resistance and shelf life.
The most consequential programme has been at the University of California, Davis, running since the 1930s. Its cultivars — Shasta and Lassen in the 1940s, Tioga, later Chandler, Camarosa, Albion — have at times accounted for the majority of California's planted acreage. Its single biggest contribution was the day-neutral strawberry, developed by Royce Bringhurst and Victor Voth from wild Fragaria virginiana subsp. glauca collected in the mountains of Utah. Ordinary strawberries flower in response to short days and fruit in a concentrated spring flush; day-neutral plants flower more or less regardless of daylength, and they turned a six-week season into a harvest running most of the year. That single genetic trait, taken from a wild mountain plant, is the reason strawberries are in shops in October.
The cost of all this is the complaint everyone makes: modern strawberries look better than they taste. It is worth being precise about why, because the usual explanation is only half right. Breeders did not select against flavour; they selected for firmness, size, yield and shelf life, and flavour — which depends on a large set of volatile aroma compounds, not just on sugar — was not measured or selected for in most programmes. Work by Schwieterman and colleagues (2014) analysing dozens of cultivars found that perceived sweetness depends heavily on volatile compounds independent of sugar content, and that cultivars differ enormously in them. Klee and Tieman (2018) make the broader point across fruit crops: flavour is genetically complex, was rarely a breeding target, and has drifted as a by-product of selecting for everything else. There is also a narrow genetic base to work from — Sjulin and Dale (1987) showed that North American cultivars trace back to a small number of founding clones. The encouraging part is that this is a fixable problem rather than an inevitable trade-off, and flavour is now an explicit breeding target in several programmes.
What the Genome Says Now
Duchesne got the parentage right, but the genetics turn out to be deeper than a simple two-species cross. The garden strawberry is octoploid — it carries eight sets of chromosomes (2n = 8x = 56), where the woodland strawberry has two. Both parents, F. chiloensis and F. virginiana, are themselves octoploid wild species, which means the eightfold genome was assembled long before any of this happened, by repeated hybridisation among diploid ancestors somewhere in the deep past.
Untangling which diploid species contributed those subgenomes has been an active and genuinely contested question. The woodland strawberry F. vesca was sequenced in 2011 (Shulaev and colleagues) and, with a small genome and a short generation time, became a model organism for the rose family. In 2019, Edger and colleagues published an octoploid genome in Nature Genetics and proposed four diploid progenitors — F. vesca, F. iinumae, F. viridis and F. nipponica — with F. vesca acting as a dominant subgenome.
That conclusion was promptly challenged. Feng and colleagues (2021) re-analysed the data and argued that only F. vesca and F. iinumae can be confidently identified as donors, and that the remaining two subgenomes come from species not yet identified — possibly extinct. Hardigan and colleagues (2021) revisited the ancestry and domestication history again. The honest summary in 2026 is that two of the four diploid ancestors are agreed and two are disputed, which is a normal state of affairs for a polyploid crop and a good example of a headline result being narrowed by later work. Liston, Cronn and Ashman (2014) give a readable overview of why Fragaria is such a useful genus for these questions, and Whitaker and colleagues (2020) set out where the research is heading.
The Modern Industry
The strawberry is now grown on every inhabited continent. China is by a wide margin the largest producer by volume. In the United States, California grows the overwhelming majority of the crop — on the order of nine tenths — with Florida supplying the winter market, and Spain (particularly Huelva) is the dominant European exporter.
Modern production concentrates the fruit into a small number of intensively managed districts and depends on several things at once: day-neutral and short-day cultivars matched to the district, high-density planting on raised beds under plastic mulch with drip irrigation, disease-free nursery runners produced in cool highland or northern nurseries, an unbroken cold chain from field to shop, and, historically, soil fumigation before planting.
That last element has changed substantially and is worth knowing about, because it connects the crop's history to its present-day reputation. For decades the standard pre-plant fumigant was methyl bromide, which is highly effective against soil pathogens, nematodes and weed seed — and is also an ozone-depleting substance. It was scheduled for phase-out under the Montreal Protocol, and the critical-use exemptions that kept it available to strawberry growers were finally wound down in the mid-2010s. Growers moved to alternative fumigants such as chloropicrin and 1,3-dichloropropene, to steam and anaerobic soil disinfestation, to resistant cultivars, and to substrate and soil-less systems. The pesticide questions that follow strawberries around today — and they are worth taking seriously and reading carefully — are covered in the companion article on pesticides, allergies and safety.
What has not changed is the fruit's peculiar position: a crop with no wild ancestor of its own, invented by accident in a French garden less than three hundred years ago, now grown in millions of tonnes and still, at its best, tasting of the woodland fruit that Virgil's children were picking off the ground.
Research Papers and References
- Duchesne AN. Histoire naturelle des fraisiers. Paris: Didot le Jeune & C. J. Panckoucke; 1766. — The foundation document: identifies the pineapple strawberry as a chiloensis × virginiana hybrid, reports controlled crosses, and includes a genealogical diagram of strawberry varieties. Published when the author was nineteen.
- Frézier AF. Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux côtes du Chily et du Pérou, fait pendant les années 1712, 1713 & 1714. Paris: Jean-Geoffroy Nyon; 1716. — The spy's own account of the voyage that brought Fragaria chiloensis to France, including his description of the unusually large cultivated strawberries around Concepción.
- Darrow GM. The Strawberry: History, Breeding and Physiology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 1966. — The standard English-language history of the crop and the source most later accounts (including the 1368 Louvre planting) rely on. Full text is freely available through the USDA National Agricultural Library.
- Staudt G. Taxonomic studies in the genus Fragaria: typification of Fragaria species known at the time of Linnaeus. Canadian Journal of Botany. 1962;40(6):869–886. — doi:10.1139/b62-081
- Hummer KE, Hancock J. Strawberry genomics: botanical history, cultivation, traditional breeding, and new technologies. In: Genetics and Genomics of Rosaceae. New York: Springer; 2009:413–435. — doi:10.1007/978-0-387-77491-6_20
- Hummer KE, Bassil N, Njuguna W. Fragaria. In: Kole C, ed. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources — Temperate Fruits. Berlin: Springer; 2011:17–44. — doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16057-8_2
- Liston A, Cronn R, Ashman TL. Fragaria: a genus with deep historical roots and ripe for evolutionary and ecological insights. American Journal of Botany. 2014;101(10):1686–1699. — doi:10.3732/ajb.1400140
- Rousseau-Gueutin M, Gaston A, Aïnouche A, et al. Tracking the evolutionary history of polyploidy in Fragaria L. (strawberry): new insights from phylogenetic analyses of low-copy nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2009;51(3):515–530. — doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.024
- Shulaev V, Sargent DJ, Crowhurst RN, et al. The genome of woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca). Nature Genetics. 2011;43(2):109–116. — doi:10.1038/ng.740
- Edger PP, Poorten TJ, VanBuren R, et al. Origin and evolution of the octoploid strawberry genome. Nature Genetics. 2019;51(3):541–547. — doi:10.1038/s41588-019-0356-4
- Feng C, Wang J, Harris AJ, et al. Tracing the diploid ancestry of the cultivated octoploid strawberry. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2021;38(2):478–485. — doi:10.1093/molbev/msaa238 — The principal published challenge to the four-progenitor model above.
- Hardigan MA, Feldmann MJ, Lorant A, et al. Unraveling the complex hybrid ancestry and domestication history of cultivated strawberry. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2021;38(6):2285–2305. — doi:10.1093/molbev/msab024
- Hardigan MA, Poorten TJ, Acharya CB, et al. Genome synteny has been conserved among the octoploid progenitors of cultivated strawberry over millions of years of evolution. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2020;10:1789. — doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.01789
- Whitaker VM, Knapp SJ, Denoyes B, et al. A roadmap for research in octoploid strawberry. Horticulture Research. 2020;7:33. — doi:10.1038/s41438-020-0252-1
- Folta KM, Davis TM. Strawberry genes and genomics. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences. 2006;25(5):399–415. — doi:10.1080/07352680600824831
- Sjulin TM, Dale A. Genetic diversity of North American strawberry cultivars. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. 1987;112(2):375–385. — doi:10.21273/JASHS.112.2.375 — Documents how narrow the founding gene pool of the modern crop is.
- Schwieterman ML, Colquhoun TA, Jaworski EA, et al. Strawberry flavor: diverse chemical compositions, a seasonal influence, and effects on sensory perception. PLoS ONE. 2014;9(2):e88446. — doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088446
- Klee HJ, Tieman DM. The genetics of fruit flavour preferences. Nature Reviews Genetics. 2018;19(6):347–356. — doi:10.1038/s41576-018-0002-5
- Giampieri F, Tulipani S, Alvarez-Suarez JM, et al. The strawberry: composition, nutritional quality, and impact on human health. Nutrition. 2012;28(1):9–19. — doi:10.1016/j.nut.2011.08.009
- Virgil, Eclogues III.92–93 (humi nascentia fraga); Ovid, Metamorphoses I.104 (mollia fraga); Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book XV. — The three classical passages that establish the wild strawberry as a gathered food in the Roman world. Cited from the standard Loeb Classical Library editions.
- PubMed topic search: PubMed: Fragaria × ananassa origin and hybrid history
- PubMed topic search: PubMed: strawberry octoploid subgenome ancestry
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