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On the origin of strawberries

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High-quality genomes of the cultivated strawberry’s progenitors provide the strongest evidence to date for the identity and chromosomal composition of the four subgenomes of octoploid strawberry.

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Fig. 1: Map showing the ancient (~1.5 million years ago) hybrid origin of the octoploid strawberry (eight-pointed star, dashed arrows are presumed extinct), the recent (300 years ago) hybrid origin of the cultivated strawberry, and the natural distribution of the progenitor species (circles, diploid; squares, octoploid).

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Liston, A. On the origin of strawberries. Nat. Plants 9, 1176–1177 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01488-9

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