DURHAM, N.H., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- It took four years, but researchers at the University of New Hampshire have finally finished mapping the genetic history of the cultivated strawberry.
Scientists focused on one of the closest wild relatives of the modern cultivated strawberry, Fragaria iinumae. Unlike other wild species and cultivated strawberries, which have as many as seven different chromosomes, Fragaria iinumae boasts diploid cells, with two homologous copies of each of its two chromosomes, one from each of its parents.