GENETIC RESOURCES IN STRAWBERRIES IN EUROPE

In the years 1994 and 1995 a first inventory was created with 900 strawberry cultivars of the main European collections.
In 1998 the European COST action 836 “Integrated research in berries” was started to coordinate the scientific activities in 20 partner countries.
A first overview of the responsible working group for genetic resources has shown that the collections of the participating institutes have been changed significantly within this few years.
In 15 institutes 2089 cultivar accessions and 341 wild species accessions are preserved.
Half of the 871 cultivars are grown only at one site and six of them seem to be still lost.
Therefore 111 important cultivars should be preserved at least on two different places.
The results of the planned evaluation in the different institutions should result in a future European Fragaria database.

Eucarpia symposium on Fruit Breeding and Genetics

M. Geibel, P. Roudeillac

Fragaria x ananassa, Fragaria-database

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2000.538.14