Strawberry plant named ‘Sonora’

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2000-11-01

2002-12-17

Campell, Bruce R. (Department: 1661)

Plants

Fruit

Strawberry

Plant Patent

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PP013386

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The new variety, ‘Sonora’, originated as a result of a controlled cross between the strawberry plants ‘33×257’ and ‘L2’ (both unpatented varieties of Driscoll Strawberry Associates, Inc.) in an ongoing breeding program, and was discovered as a seedling in a controlled breeding plot in Monterey County, Calif. The original seedling of the new cultivar was asexually propagated by stolons at a Nursury in McArthur, Shasta County, Calif. Propagules were transplanted to a controlled breeding plot in Monterey County, Calif., where the variety was identified and selected for further evaluation in May 1996. The new variety, ‘Sonora’, was subsequently asexually propagated and underwent further testing in the Monterey Bay area in California for five years. This propagation and testing has demonstrated that the combination of traits disclosed herein which characterize the new variety are fixed and are retained true to type through successive generations of asexual reproduction.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of strawberry named ‘Sonora’. The varierty is botanically identified as
Fragaria×ananassa
. The new variety is distinguished from other varieties by a number of characteristics as set forth in Tables 1-4.
COMPARISON TO SIMILAR VARIETIES
The varieties that we believe to be similar to ‘Sonora’ from those known to us are ‘Commander’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,024), ‘San Juan’ (U.S. plant application Ser. No. 09/524,581), and ‘Ana Maria’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 11,035). There are several characteristics of the new variety that are different from, or not possessed by, ‘Commander’, ‘San Juan’ and ‘Ana Maria’. The new variety is fully everbearing and has a flat globose habit, strong interveinal blistering, weak leaf glossiness, rounded terminal leaflet shape of base and teeth, sparse petiole pubescence, dense to very dense stolon pubescence, a position of inflorescence above the foliage, larger calyx diameter relative to the corolla, a semi-erect attitude of the fruiting truss at first picking, predominantly conical fruit, very slight to slight differences between shapes of primary and secondary fruits, very narrow to narrow band without achenes, very weak unevenness of surface of the fruit, weak to medium glossiness of the fruit, spreading to reflexed pose of the calyx segments, even flesh color of the fruit, and absent to small hollow center size.

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