TY - JOUR AU - Bringhurst, Royce S. AU - Voth, Victor TI - Hybridization in strawberries JF - California Agriculture JO - Calif Agr Y1 - 1982/08/01 VL - 36 IS - 8 SP - 25 EP - 25 PB - University of California Agriculture and Nature Resources SN - 0008-0845 UR - http://www.ucanr.edu/sites/calagjournal/archive/?article=ca.v036n08p25 AB - Not available – first paragraph follows:Polyploidy is important in strawberries, because only in the end products found in nature (octoploids Fragaria chiloensis and F virginiana) were the necessary genes found, organized, and conserved in such a way as to make possible the relatively rapid breeding of the modern large-fruited strawberry cultivare. Lower ploidy levels are of interest, because they tend to be highly specialized to specific environments, and many of the traits they carry as a result may be useful in the cultivare of the future, if they can be introduced into the octoploids.