The Characteristics of Hybrids from the Cross of Red-flowered cv'Pretty Beauty'and White-flowered cv'Sagahonoka' in strawberry
[Objective]To improve the important traits and breed novel red-flowered strawberry cultivars with ornamental flowers and edible fruits.[Method]The red-flowered strawberry cultivar'Pretty Beauty' was used to cross with white-flowered cultivated cultivar'Sagahonoka'to improve its fruit size and fruit quality.[Result]The fruit-setting rate of'Pretty Beauty'as male parent(60.0%)was higher than it as female parent(32.3%).The flower color was segregated in their hybrid offspring,but lighter than the flower color of'Pretty Beauty';And the fruit shape of the hybrids varied greatly.The fruit characteristics of some hybrids were significantly superior to red -flowered parent. [Conclusion] The novel red -flowered strawberry germplasms with ornamental flower and edible fruit were seclected such as 1-31 and 2-23.