Scientific Name Fragaria vesca
Common Name European strawberry, alpine strawberry, wood strawberry;
Taxonomy ID 57918
Lineage cellular organisms > Viridiplantae > Streptophyta > Streptophytina > Embryophyta > Tracheophyta > Euphyllophyta > Spermatophyta > Magnoliophyta > Mesangiospermae > eudicotyledons > Gunneridae > Pentapetalae > rosids > fabids > Rosales > Rosaceae > Rosoideae > Potentilleae > Fragariinae > Fragaria
External Links NCBI; JGI; PLAZA;
Representative Assembly FraVesHawaii_1.0 GCF_000184155.1 DNA GFF RNA Protein
Description:

The wood strawberry is used as an indicator plant for diseases that affect the garden strawberry. It is also used as a genetic model plant for garden strawberry and the Rosaceae family in general, due to its very small genome size, short reproductive cycle (14–15 weeks in climate-controlled greenhouses) and ease of propagation. The genome of Fragaria vesca was sequenced in 2010. Fragaria vesca, commonly called wild strawberry, woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, European strawberry, or fraise des bois, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the rose family that grows naturally throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, and that produces edible fruits. The woodland strawberry, Fragaria vesca (2n=2x=14), is a versatile experimental plant system. This diminutive herbaceous perennial has a small genome (206Mb), is amenable to genetic transformation, and shares substantial sequence identity with the cultivated strawberry (F. × ananassa) as well as other economically important members of the Rosaceae family.