Developing resource-use efficient strawberries for substrate production

实现作物的最佳产量和质量通常取决于环境和植物基因型之间的复杂相互作用。在英国和整个欧洲，种植者越来越多地在基质中而不是在土壤中，在温室和大棚中而不是在露天场地中生产草莓等水果作物。尽管有机会为适应这种更受控制的环境的品种量身定制，许多育种计划仍然选择和试验新品种在开放领域的土壤。在本项目中，将沿着研究优化无土生产的关键性状的基础，以及在这种更可控的环境中获得最高果实质量的性状。将开发遗传标记供育种者利用，并通过与农学家，基质生产商和超市合作，收集新品种最佳生产的宝贵知识和实用技术，以使受保护的英国草莓种植者受益。

The realisation of optimal yield and quality from a crop is often dependent upon a complex interaction between the environment and the plant genotype. In the UK and across Europe growers are increasingly producing fruit crops such as strawberries in substrates, rather than in soil and in glasshouses and polytunnels rather than the open field. Despite this opportunitity for cultivars tailored to this more controlled environment many breeding programmes still select and trial new varieties in the open field in soil. In this project the basis of key traits for optimate soil-less production will be investigated along with those yielding maximum fruit quality in this more controlled environment. Genetic markers will be developed for exploitaion by breeders and by working with agronomists, substrate producers and supermarkets valuable knowledge and practical techniques for optimum production of new cultivars will be gathered to benefit UK growers of stawberries under protection.