Information was collected on yield and fruit quality in ‘Festival’, ‘Fortuna’, ‘Red Rhapsody’, ‘Fronteras’, ‘Grenada’ ‘Petaluma’ strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) southern Queensland, Australia. Marketable similar the cultivars ranged from 352 to 416 g/plant. Fruit were smaller ‘Festival’ (21.3 or 23.7 g), intermediate ‘Fortuna’ Rhapsody’ (25.0 24.7 larger ‘Fronteras’ (27.6 27.8 g). solubl...

Fruit set and quality in strawberry cv. Selva were influenced by salinity (NaCl) and supplementary calcium and potassium (CaSO , CaCl , K SO ) treatments applied to the root medium of plants growing in 4 2 2 4 soilless culture under heated greenhouse conditions. Yield components such as primary fruit weight and fresh fruit weight (at harvest time) and fruit number were higher in control and the...

HORTSCIENCE VOL. 41(1) FEBRUARY 2006 annuum L.), pineapple [Ananas comosus (L.) Merrill], potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), spinach, strawberry (Fragaria ×ananassa Duch.), and tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill.). Ascorbic acid is critical in maintaining a healthy immune system, reducing the severity of colds by preventing secondary viral or bacterial infections, protecting against damage by red...

Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) is a genetically complex allo-octoploid crop with 28 pairs of chromosomes (2n = 8x = 56) for which a genome sequence is not yet available. The diploid Fragaria vesca is considered the donor species of one of the octoploid sub-genomes and its available genome sequence can be used as a reference for genomic studies. A wide number of strawberry cultivars...

A vast number of clones carrying cDNAs from genes differentially expressed along the strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa c.v. Chandler) fruit ripening process has been isolated by screening of a subtractive cDNA library. The library was constructed and screened using a powerful procedure that combines the differential screening technique with a Southern blot screening by means of the polymerase cha...

Abstract Background Strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) is an important fruit crop worldwide. It was particularly sensitive to drought stress because of their fibrous and shallow root systems. Mutant rty Arabidopsis thaliana ROOTY RTY ) results in increased endogenous auxin levels, more roots, shoot growth. still unclear whether the gene improves tolerance strawberry. Results isolated from ...

Changes in fruit quality, decay, phenolic and anthocyanin content, and antioxidant capacity of strawberries (Fragaria ananassa Duch. cv. Allstar) stored under air and high oxygen atmospheres at 5 1C were investigated. Freshly harvested strawberries were placed in jars and ventilated continuously with air or with 40, 60, 80, or 100 kPa O2 at 5 1C for up to 14 days. Samples were taken initially, ...

Ectopic expression of the strawberry (Fragaria×ananassa) gene FaPE1 encoding pectin methyl esterase produced in the wild species Fragaria vesca partially demethylated oligogalacturonides (OGAs), which conferred partial resistance of ripe fruits to the fungus Botrytis cinerea. Analyses of metabolic and transcriptional changes in the receptacle of the transgenic fruits revealed channelling of met...

The soil-borne pathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae Kleb. causes economic losses in crops in temperate regions of the world and hence is the most studied species. Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) belongs to plant species susceptible to Verticillium dahliae, although the response to infection caused by this pathogen is varied and depends on the cultivar. Due to a lack of efficient method...

Strawberries are rich in antioxidants and plant components to enhance cardiac health regulate blood sugar. This experiment investigates the effects of N fertilization foliar spraying with calcium (Ca) boron (B) on growth, chemical composition foliage, fruit yield, quality strawberry plants (Fragaria × ananassa Duch. cv. Fortuna). includes 12 treatments from combination between four fertilizers ...