Fragaria nipponica
     Japanese strawberry / 日本草莓

Taxonomy: Angiosperms / Eudicots / Rosids / Rosales / Rosaceae

Introduction

1. Fragaria nipponica is a species of wild strawberry native to the western side of the Japanese island of Honshu.
2. Fragaria nipponica, particularly var. yakusimensis, is cultivated in Japan for its edible fruit.
3. All strawberries have a base haploid count of 7 chromosomes. Fragaria nipponica is diploid, having 2 pairs of these chromosomes for a total of 14 chromosomes.
4. Some botanists treat it as a synonym of Fragaria nipponica.

Genome statistics

VarietyN.A.
Total sequence length206,414,839 bp
Total assembly gap length13,404 bp
Number of scaffolds215,024
Scaffold N501,275 bp
Scaffold L5038,601 bp
Number of contigs215,530
Contig N501,273 bp
Contig L5038,656 bp
Chromosome number2n=14
Number of component sequences (WGS or clone)215,530
Sequencing technologyIllumina HiSeq1000

Reference

Hirakawa, H. et al. Dissection of the Octoploid Strawberry Genome by Deep Sequencing of the Genomes of Fragaria Species. DNA Research 21, 169-181 (2014).