Genetics in Your World

Breeding Better Berries: Inbreeding and Hybrid Vigor in Strawberries – A Conversation with Dr. Steven J. Knapp


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In this episode of Genetics in Your World, GSA Early Career Scientist Multimedia Subcommittee member Faye Romero interviews Dr. Steven J. Knapp of the University of California, Davis about the genetics underlying increased hybrid performance in strawberry cultivars. Read Dr. Knapp’s paper titled, “A dominance hypothesis argument for historical genetic gains and the fixation of heterosis in octoploid strawberry,” published in the December 2024 issue of G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics: https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyae159.


Music: Loopster Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/


Thank you to the GSA Early Career Scientist Multimedia Subcommittee, in particular the production team who worked on this episode: Faye Romero, Interviewer and Researcher; Sarah Gilmour, Audio Quality Control Coordinator.

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