Using wild strawberry of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic in breeding garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.)

Abstract

In Central Yakutia, cultivating of Fragaria × ananassa varieties involves high risk of frost-killing. To create winter-resistant cultivars of garden strawberry there was performed open pollination under the conditions of redundant pollen background of local wild strawberry F. mandshurica Staudt. Most seedlings grown from the achenes thus developed retain specific characters of F. × ananassa. The stock of selected seedlings was established. Creation of the varieties adapted to the local growing conditions proves the selection technique to be successful.