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The humble wild plant that made the strawberry succulent

Beloved fruit has a tangled family tree — but owes much of its fragrance and sweetness to just one ancestor.
Commercial strawberry production by tabletop system

High demand for strawberries, which trace their ancestry to three continents, helped drive global production of the fruit to 9 million tonnes in 2016. Credit: Claire Higgins/Getty

The strawberries people enjoy today at picnics and parties have their roots in four wild plants found around the globe.

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Nature 567, 8 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00657-1

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