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.

“Enhancing multi-year, June-Bearing plasticulture strawberry production in Indiana through mulch color and cultivar selection, weed management and strawberry runner suppression.” Abstract: Multi-year ...

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 ...

Purdue University received a Specialty Crop Block Grant from the USDA for the Developing a Novel Multi-Year Production System for Strawberries Grown on Plastic Mulch in Indiana project. Stephen Meyers ...