Covers the latest advances in genome sequencing of strawberry and its relatives Describes the challenging work with polyploid genomes Is of interest to scientists in plant genetic research and crop breeding

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The economic importance of strawberry crops- David Simpson, NIAB-EMR. Phylogenetics of Fragaria, Rubus and related families.- The genome of Fragaria vesca .- Control of flowering in Fragaria vesca.- Fruit development and the use of near isogenic lines for functional characterisation in Fragaria vesca.- NLR genes in Fragaria and Rubus.- Disease resistance in polyploid strawberry.- Fruit ripening and QTL for fruit quality in the octoploid strawberry.- Genotyping tools for the octoploid strawberry.- The current status of the octoploid strawberry genome.- The history and current status of genetic transformation in berry crops.- Genome-assisted breeding in the cultivated strawberry.- The black raspberry genome.- Fruit development in red raspberry. ** <p