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We have continuously selected plants and fruit with superior characteristics. The result, the largest known collection of alpine strawberry seeds anywhere.

Fragaria vesca is a diverse species that includes plants that produce runners and plants that form clumps with few to no runners. It includes cultivars that produce red, white or yellow fruit. We have specialized in the alpine types that produce clumps, though we have woodland types that produce runners. In particular, Shaw wanted access to the varieties that he had developed but had not yet released.

I want my cultivars to be used. Shaw is sixty-three, with a rust-colored boot-brush mustache and a high bloom in his cheeks. His eyes, which he squints warily, are the color of gingerbread. Monterey cypresses stooped witchily, wind-bent; in the near distance, the Pacific Ocean was visible behind fog. Interestingly, C.

Shaw knew it well, as did most of the people C. Shaw refused. Kawamura, a former state secretary of food and agriculture and a major grower who serves as the president of C. What was at stake, C.

Without new cultivars, growers dependent on the university could not continue. The university, in a countersuit, accused Shaw of illegally breeding with the pipeline cultivars on behalf of his new company, while still employed by Davis. They had the plants in their own hands. Knapp had sequenced the strawberry genome and secured a multimillion-dollar grant, and would be releasing new cultivars in the fall.

We walked around the field, filled with hybrids that Shaw had designed, including the contentious Spanish crosses. Those were in a legal limbo, and might need to be destroyed. The rulings and decisions, Shaw later wrote me, had created obstacles, but they were not insurmountable.

Like Shaw, who trained him, VandenLangenberg is color-blind. With help, he found a ripe berry, red and plump and nicely shaped. It looked like a commercial fruit—with luck, it would be available in five years—and, best of all, it had no U. I asked where it had come from.

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