Details for: PI 616853, Fragaria ×ananassa Duchesne ex Rozier, 'Melody'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Fragaria ×ananassa Duchesne ex Rozier
Cultivar:
'Melody'
Origin:
Developed – England, United Kingdom
Received by NPGS:
18 Jun 1996
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Reproductive Uniformity:

Hybrid
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
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FRUIT

Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Fragaria ×ananassa Duchesne ex Rozier
Cultivar:
'Melody'
Origin:
Developed – England, United Kingdom
Received by NPGS:
18 Jun 1996
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Reproductive Uniformity:

Hybrid
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Developed
1988.
England, United Kingdom

Developer(s):
Donated
18 June 1996.
England, United Kingdom
Comment: Simpson to John Hargreaves and Sons to Sue Stokes to NCGR
Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
'Melody'
Type: Cultivar name
Group: STRAWBERRY
Robbie J. McNichol cultivar release cross made by H. J. Gooding at Auchincruive in 1971 tested as SCRI 71WC64, introduced in 1992
Simpson, David W. East Malling Research Station

SCRI71WC64
Type: Developer identifier
Group: OTHERNUM
other identifier

CFRA 1593
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

Melody Open Pollinated
Type: Plot
Group: STRAWBERRY
seedlot name for backup

Narrative
Fruit: small to medium size; firm, easy calyz removal, good external and internal color, ripens midseason, processing use. Plant: yield same or slightly better than Cambridge Favourite; runners well. Highly field resistant to red stele; moderately resistant to verticillium wild in laboratory tests. ASHS Press. 1997. The Brooks and Olmo Register of Fruit and Nut Varieties. p. 705.

Robbie J. McNichol cultivar release cross made by H. J. Gooding at Auchincruive in 1971 tested as SCRI 71WC64, introduced in 1992
Fragaria ×ananassa Duchesne ex Rozier
Genus:
Fragaria
Family:
Rosaceae
Subfamily:
Rosoideae
Tribe:
Potentilleae
Subtribe:
Fragariinae
Nomen number:

244
Place of publication:

Cours compl. agric. 5:52, t. 5, fig. 1. 1785 (A. N. Duchesne in J. B. A. P. M. de Lamarck, Encycl. 2:538. 1788)(A. N. Duchesne, Hist. nat. frais. 190. 1766, as "races principales")
Verified:
03/24/2006 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Fragaria ×ananassa Duchesne ex Rozier nothosubsp. ananassa (1 active accession[s])
Fragaria ×ananassa Duchesne ex Rozier nothosubsp. cuneifolia (Nutt. ex Howell) Staudt (57 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Fragaria ×ananassa Duchesne ex Rozier var. ananassa

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fragaria chiloensis (L.) Mill. var. ananassa (Duchesne ex Rozier) Ser.
Potentilla ×ananassa (Duchesne ex Rozier) Mabb.

Invalid Designation(s)
Fragaria ×magna auct.
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishgarden strawberry  1Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Englishstrawberry  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Frenchfraisier  2Feuillet, C. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. French common names
Frenchfraisier ananas  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanAnanaserdbeere  2Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
GermanErdbeere  2Conrad, L. R. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
GermanGartenerdbeere  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanKulturerdbeere  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage Note: lists as Fragaria ×ananassa (Duchesne) Guédès
Japanese Rōmajioranda-ichigo  2Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan.
Portuguesemorangueiro  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishfresa  2León, B. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. Spanish common names
Spanishfresa ananás  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Transcribed Koreanttalgi  2Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
Annotations
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Pathogens
Vouchers
Citations
  • Mathey, M. M., S. Mookerjee, K. Gündüz, J. F. Hancock, A. F. Iezzoni, L. L. Mahoney, T. M. Davis, N. V. Bassil, K. E. Hummer, P. J. Stewart, V. M. Whitaker, D. J. Sargent, B. Denoyes, I. Amaya, E. van de Weg, & C. E. Finn. 2013. Large-Scale Standardized Phenotyping of Strawberry in RosBREED. J. Amer. Pomol. Soc. 67(4):205-216. Number of accessions cited: 153
  • Nes, A. 1997. Evaluation of strawberry cultivars in Norway. Acta Hort. 439:275-280. Number of accessions cited: 4
  • 1997. The Brooks and Olmo Register of Fruit & Nut Varieties, 3rd ed. American Society for Horticultural Science Press. 705. Number of accessions cited: 0
Pedigree
Date released:
1988
Description:
SCRI 66 M1 x Senga Sengana (SCRI 66 M1 is a highly red-stele resistant third generation derivative of F. virginiana.)
Intellectual Property Rights
Foreign patent or license. Issued: 01 Mar 1995.

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
CHEMICALTOTAL SOLUBLE SOLIDSTOTAL SOLUBLE SOLIDS MEASURED BY REFRACTOMETRY7.9 FRAGARIA.Mathey.Finn.Phenotyping.2013 Not Available
CHEMICALpHpH READING OF THE FRUIT3.7 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
CHEMICALpHpH READING OF THE FRUIT3.8 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
DISEASE1 highly resistanthighly resistant to crown rot  2FRAGARIA.Eikemo.etal.CROWNROT.2003CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
GENSTOCKTRUE TO TYPEConfirmation of cultivar identity based on pedigree analysis (parents and or offspring) using molecular markers YES FRAGARIA.Zurn.etal.PopulationStructure.2022CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
MORPHOLOGYPedicel length-epipodium [cm]Epipodium length (upper part of the flower inflorescence) in cm4.5 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
MORPHOLOGYPedicel length-epipodium [cm]Epipodium length (upper part of the flower inflorescence) in cm8.9 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
MORPHOLOGYFruit shape [category]Shape of fruitconic FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
MORPHOLOGYFruit shape [category]Shape of fruitconic FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
MORPHOLOGYFruit weight [g]Average berry weight10.2 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
MORPHOLOGYFruit weight [g]Average berry weight3.2 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
MORPHOLOGYRunners per plant [number]Number of runners per plant over the season10.7 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
MORPHOLOGYRunners per plant [number]Number of runners per plant over the season18.3 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
MORPHOLOGYRunner length total [m]Total length of runners over the season10.9 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
MORPHOLOGYRunner length total [m]Total length of runners over the season3.1 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
MORPHOLOGYRunner daughters [number]Number of daughters produced per runner13 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
MORPHOLOGYRunner daughters [number]Number of daughters produced per runner33.3 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
MORPHOLOGYFLAVORQUALITY OF THE FRUIT FLAVOR CODED 1-9.1 - (1 = WORST, 9 = MOST TASTEY) FRAGARIA.Mathey.Finn.Phenotyping.2013 Not Available
PHENOLOGYDays to ripen [date]Number of days between bloom and harvest40 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
PHENOLOGYDays to ripen [date]Number of days between bloom and harvest71.3 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
PHENOLOGYFruit harvest date first [date]Calendar or Julian date of first fruit harvest155 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
PHENOLOGYFruit harvest date first [date]Calendar or Julian date of first fruit harvest161 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
PHENOLOGYBloom date first [date]Julian date on which the first open blossoms were observed115 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
PHENOLOGYBloom date first [date]Julian date on which the first open blossoms were observed89.7 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
PHYSIOLOGYPlant Height (cm)Mean plant height in centimeters  FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
PHYSIOLOGYPlant Height (cm)Mean plant height in centimeters11.2 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
PHYSIOLOGY5 fruit weight [g]Harvest, weigh and calculate the mean of the heaviest 5 fruit per crown12.8 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
PHYSIOLOGY5 fruit weight [g]Harvest, weigh and calculate the mean of the heaviest 5 fruit per crown50.8 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
PRODUCTIONCrop estimate [g]Total amount of harvested fruit per plant per season418.8 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
PRODUCTIONEVERBEARINGWHETHER OR NOT THE PLANT HAS AN EVERBEARING HABITY - YES FRAGARIA.DAYNEUTRAL.CORVALLIS2002 Not Available
QUALITYTotal water soluble content [g/100g]Measure of sugar content by measuring percent of dissolved solids (°Brix)12.4 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
QUALITYTotal water soluble content [g/100g]Measure of sugar content by measuring percent of dissolved solids (°Brix)8.2 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
QUALITYTotal anthocyanin in fruit [g/100g]Total anthocyanin in fruit 1.3 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
QUALITYTotal anthocyanin in fruit [g/100g]Total anthocyanin in fruit 19.4 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2020CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available
QUALITYRatio total water soluble content : titratable acidityRatio total water soluble content : titratable acidity9.5 FRAGARIA.Hummer.etal.StrawberryPhenotypeEval.2019CFRA 1593 .001 PLNot Available