''Fragaria yezoensis'' is a species of
wild strawberry native to the eastern side of the Japanese island of
Hokkaidō, and the adjacent
Kuril Islands
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (; rus, Кури́льские острова́, r=Kuril'skiye ostrova, p=kʊˈrʲilʲskʲɪjə ɐstrɐˈva; Japanese: or ) are a volcanic archipelago currently administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the ...
and
Sakhalin
Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, r=Sakhalín, p=səxɐˈlʲin; ja, 樺太 ''Karafuto''; zh, c=, p=Kùyèdǎo, s=库页岛, t=庫頁島; Manchu: ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ, ''Sahaliyan''; Orok: Бугата на̄, ''Bugata nā''; Nivkh ...
in Russia. It is of no economic value. Some botanists include the very similar ''
Fragaria nipponica'' in ''F. yezoensis'' as a
synonym.
[Oda, Y. 2002. Photosynthetic characteristics and geographical distribution of diploid Fragaria species native in Japan. ''Acta Hort''. 567: 381-384]
Abstract
[Hummer, K.E., Sabitov, A., & Davis, T. 2005. Iturup And Sakhalin Island Strawberries. ''HortScience'' 40(4): 1127]
All strawberries have a base
haploid count of 7
chromosomes
A chromosome is a long DNA molecule with part or all of the genetic material of an organism. In most chromosomes the very long thin DNA fibers are coated with packaging proteins; in eukaryotic cells the most important of these proteins are ...
. ''Fragaria yezoensis'' is
diploid, having 2 pairs of these chromosomes for a total of 14 chromosomes.
References
External links
*Oda, Y. 2002. Photosynthetic characteristics and geographical distribution of diploid Fragaria species native in Japan. ''Acta Hort''. 567: 381–384
Abstract
*Hummer, K.E., Sabitov, A., & Davis, T. 2005. Iturup And Sakhalin Island Strawberries. ''HortScience'' 40(4): 1127
yezoensis
Flora of Northeast Asia
Flora of Japan
Plants described in 1944
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