British supermarket Waitrose is marketing "bubbleberries" in some of its stores, describing them as resembling a small strawberry that is "beautifully fragrant, with the unmistakable taste of bubblegum". They are admittedly ...
Biotechnology
May 9, 2014
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If you've ever bitten into a strawberry and wondered why it doesn't taste as sweet or as good as others in the punnet, you could blame the fruit's genetics.
Biotechnology
Apr 17, 2014
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Growing up in Tokyo, Chieri Kubota savored fresh strawberries brimming with flavor in the winter. Only when she went to college and studied agriculture did she learn that fresh strawberries in winter are "an unusual cycle ...
Biotechnology
Dec 4, 2013
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Bees have a much greater economic value than is widely known, according to a scientific probe into strawberry-growing published on Wednesday.
Ecology
Dec 4, 2013
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SALINAS, CA—In the coastal valleys of central California, where more than 80% of the United States' strawberry crops are grown, there is developing concern about the impact of these vast production systems on groundwater ...
Other
Oct 21, 2013
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A team of researchers based at LMU Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has shown how temporal control of a single gene solves two problems during fruit ripening in strawberry.
Biotechnology
Oct 7, 2013
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A robot that picks ripe strawberries as the farmer sleeps was unveiled in Japan on Wednesday, with its developer saying it could cut workloads by two-thirds.
Robotics
Sep 25, 2013
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Germany, Europe's second-biggest grain producer after France, reported a 3.0-percent increase in its harvest this year, despite the bad weather and flooding, data showed on Thursday.
Ecology
Aug 22, 2013
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A recently discovered wild strawberry provides new genetic material for plant research and may lead to a new class of commercial strawberries, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist. Genes from the ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 16, 2013
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Researchers are now designing robots for the last frontier of agricultural mechanization—fruits and vegetables destined for the U.S. fresh market, which have resisted mechanization because they're sensitive to bruising.
Robotics
Jul 14, 2013
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