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Ten seedlings from 36 crosses representing eastern and western North American short day and remontant genotypes were evaluated in 2011 and 2012 in California, Michigan, New Hampshire and Oregon, for phenology, flower related traits, plant characteristics, fruit characteristics and fruit chemistry traits. There was significant variability among genotypes, locations and evaluation year for most of the characteristics; however, few genotype × location and genotype × year interactions were detected. General combining ability variance components were significant for all traits and greater than SCA variance components for peduncle length, total flowering weeks, flowering cycles, truss size, growing degree days for harvest data, remontancy, achene position, ease of capping, fruit weight, percent soluble solids, titratable acidity and soluble solids/titratable acidity. ‘Sarian’ was identified as the best contributing parent for remontancy. Narrow-sense heritability estimates were moderate to high (0.33–0.78) for total flowering weeks, flowering cycle, truss size, remontancy, number of runners, fruit weight, pH, and titratable acidity. Having a better understanding of these attributes will provide breeders guidance on the most effective breeding strategies for incorporating superior traits from this germplasm into their programs.
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This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) Specialty Crop Research Initiative grant “RosBREED: Enabling marker-assisted breeding in Rosaceae” (Grant Number 2009-51181-05808). Thanks to, Ted Mackey and Mary Peterson (USDA-ARS, HCRU) and their 2010–2012 summer field crews, staff at the USDA-ARS, National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR), and Pete Callow at Michigan State University, for assistance in propagation, field establishment, packaging and shipping plants and phenotyping. We would also like to thank Kim Hummer the Curator of the USDA-ARS-NCGR for supplying access to germplasm and propagation materials as well as Daniel J. Sargent (East Malling Research), Beatrice Denoyes (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Iraida Amaya (Instituto de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquer) and Eric van de Weg (Plant Research International, Wageningen) for providing their mapping family sets and Amy Iezzoni RosBREED project director.
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Mathey, M.M., Mookerjee, S., Mahoney, L.L. et al. Genotype by environment interactions and combining ability for strawberry families grown in diverse environments. Euphytica 213, 112 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-017-1892-6
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