A UF researcher is targeting a costly production challenge: strawberry runners—vegetative offshoots that divert energy from ...

WIMAUMA, Fla. — Researchers want to help Florida farmers grow more strawberries. A University of Florida student has based her graduate studies on boosting production, while keeping costs down.

Strawberry growers pour roughly $130 million a year, nationally, into a surprisingly stubborn problem: a part of the plant that sabotages fruit production. These fast-growing offshoots – called ...

University of Florida scientists are studying the genetic controls behind strawberry 'runners'—offshoots that drain energy from fruit production—to breed plants that produce fewer during harvest ...