The PERPETUAL FLOWERING Locus: Necessary But Insufficient for Genomic Prediction of Runnerless and Other Asexual Reproduction Phenotypes in Strawberry
Hillel Brukental, Marta Bjornson, Dominique D. A. Pincot, Michael A. Hardigan, Sadikshya Sharma, Nicolás P Jiménez, Randi A. Famula, Cindy M. Lòpez, Glenn S. Cole, Mitchell J. Feldmann, Steven J. Knapp
This paper shows that the PF gene explains only 22% of runnering variation in strawberries and demonstrates that genomic prediction for runnering is feasible.
The Plant Genome · Aug 19, 2025Peer-reviewedGenetics