Strawberry Resources

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Stories of the strawberry

• Horticulture
• History of the strawberry
• Short history of the strawberry
• Cherokee legend on the origin of the strawberry

Developing new cultivars
Farming strawberries

What about strawberries?

• Strawberry anatomy simple anatomy of the flower, --- what master gardener volunteers learn about
  • Dissecting a fruit & plant (Texas A&M)
  • Strawberry parts (Cornell)
  • Fruits and seeds
  • Shapes
• Taxonomy Fragaria ananassa
• Propagation
  • Descriptions of various kinds of vegetative propagation
• Pests
• Pesticides
• Pathogens
  • Strawberry wilt --- Identify diseases using knowledge of plant parts
  • Botrytis, etc.

Data

• Comparisons of various cultivars. What's a cultivar?
• What farmers and scientists read
• Business of strawberry pigment analysis

Getting strawberry DNA: IT'S EASY, fast and all ingredients come from your local supermarket and pharmacy shelves!

DNA in Spanish, ADN en espagnol!

Strawberries have 8 sets of chromosomes (octopolid)! We humans have 2 sets (diploid). College-level description of ploidy from the University of Michigan (chromosome sets --has some interesting animations!) Another explanation of ploidy from Berkeley (has vocabulary)

• Basics about cells
• Mapping the strawberry genome
• Chromosome sets of different familiar plants and animals
• Database of genome sizes (DOGS, even scientists have a sense of humor!) a shorter list
• A hands-on way to analyze chromosomes you can do at home or school. A complete lesson on chromosome analysis