Strawberry plant named ‘DrisStrawFourteen’

Abstract

This invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of strawberry plant named ‘DrisStrawFourteen’. The new cultivar is primarily characterized by a medium density plant with medium vigor, medium-sized fruit having a large hollow center, and a partially everbearing habit, is disclosed.

Description

Genus and species: Fragaria×ananassa.

Variety denomination: ‘DrisStrawFourteen’.

BACKGROUND OF THE NEW PLANT

The present invention relates to a new and distinct strawberry cultivar designated ‘DrisStrawFourteen’ and botanically known as Fragaria×ananassa. This new strawberry cultivar was discovered in Monterey County, Calif. in May 2005 and originated from a cross between the proprietary female parent ‘159K312’ (unpatented) and the proprietary male parent ‘128K296’ (unpatented). The original seedling of the new cultivar was first asexually propagated by stolons or tissue culture at a nursery in Shasta County, Calif.

‘DrisStrawFourteen’ was subsequently asexually propagated in Shasta County, Calif. and underwent further testing in Monterey County, Calif. for five years. The present invention has been found to retain its distinctive characteristics through successive asexual propagations via stolons and tissue culture.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS

The accompanying color photographs show typical specimens of the new cultivar at various stages of development as nearly true as it is possible to make in color reproductions. The photographs were taken from 9-month-old plants.

FIG. 1 shows overall plant habit including fruit at various stages of development.

FIG. 2 shows leaves of the plant with three leaflets.

FIG. 3 shows both the upper side and underside of several of the flowers.

FIG. 4 shows the whole fruit.

FIG. 5 shows the fruit in longitudinal cross-section.

DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW CULTIVAR

The following description of ‘DrisStrawFourteen’ is based on observations taken in Monterey County, Calif. from 2005 to 2009. This description is in accordance with UPOV terminology. Color designations, color descriptions, and other phenotypical descriptions may deviate from the stated values and descriptions depending upon variation in environmental, seasonal, climatic, and cultural conditions. ‘DrisStrawFourteen’ has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The botanical description of ‘DrisStrawFourteen’ was taken from 9-month-old plants and the botanical descriptions of the comparison varieties, ‘San Juan’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,899) and ‘Driscoll Lanai’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 15,145), were taken from 10-month-old plants and from 8-month-old plants, respectively. Color terminology follows The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart, London (RHS) (2001).

DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION

Table 1 shows plant characteristics of the new variety compared with plant characteristics of the commercial varieties ‘San Juan’ and ‘Driscoll Lanai’. Plant characteristics include plant height, diameter, number of crowns per plant, habit, the density of individual plants and the vigor.

TABLE 1
Characteristic	‘DrisStrawFourteen’	‘San Juan’	‘Driscoll Lanai’
Plant height (cm)	24.9	23.6	22.8
Plant diameter (cm)	39.6	44.2	40.1
Number of crowns/	3	2	2
plant
Habit	Globose	Globose	Globose
Density of	Medium	Dense	Medium
individual plant
Vigor	Medium	Strong	Medium

Table 2 shows leaf characteristics of the new cultivar compared with leaf characteristics of ‘San Juan’ and ‘Driscoll Lanai’. Leaf characteristics include terminal leaflet length and width in centimeters, length to width ratio, number of teeth per terminal leaflet, shape of teeth, color of upper side and underside of leaf, leaf shape in cross section, leaf blistering, leaf glossiness, number of leaflets, terminal leaflet margin, terminal leaflet length to width ratio, overall leaf shape and shape of leaf apex and base.

TABLE 2
	‘DrisStrawFourteen’	‘San Juan’	‘Driscoll Lanai’
Leaf
Characteristic
Terminal leaflet	7.6	7.4	7.2
length (cm)
Terminal leaflet	0.84	0.74	0.69
width (cm)
Terminal leaflet	0.9	1.0	1.0
length/width ratio
No. teeth/	28	21	20
terminal leaflet
Characteristic
Shape of teeth	Obtuse	Rounded	Rounded
Color of upper	RHS 147A	RHS 139A	RHS 147A
surface of leaf	(Dark yellow-	(Dark green)	(Dark yellow-
	green)		green)
Color of lower	RHS 148B	RHS 147B	RHS 148C
surface of leaf	(Medium	(Medium	(Medium
	yellow-green)	yellow-green)	yellow-green)
Leaf shape in	Slightly	Slightly	Flat
cross section	concave	concave
Leaf blistering	Medium	Medium	Medium
Leaf glossiness	Medium	Medium	Medium
No. leaflets	3 only	3 only	3 only
Terminal leaflet	Flat	Revolute to	Revolute to
margin		flat	flat
Terminal leaflet	As long as	As long as	As long as
length/width ratio	broad	broad	broad
Terminal leaflet	Orbicular	Orbicular	Orbicular
shape
Terminal leaflet	Rounded	Rounded	Rounded
base shape
Terminal leaflet	Rounded	Rounded	Rounded
apex shape

Table 3 shows information about the petiole, the petiolule, the bract, and the stipule of the new cultivar compared to ‘San Juan’ and ‘Driscoll Lanai’. This includes petiole length in centimeters, petiole diameter in centimeters, petiole pubescence, pose of hairs on the petiole, color of the petiole, color of the petiolule, petiolule length in centimeters, petiolule diameter in centimeters, bract frequency per petiole, stipule length in centimeters, stipule width in centimeters, stipule pubescence and stipule anthocyanin coloration.

TABLE 3
Characteristic	‘DrisStrawFourteen’	‘San Juan’	‘Driscoll Lanai’
Petiole length	13.8	16.3	14.4
(cm)
Petiole diameter	0.333	0.314	0.280
(cm)
Petiole	Sparse	Medium	Medium
pubescence
Petiole pose	Upwards to	Outwards	Between
of hairs	downwards		upwards
			and outwards
Petiole color	RHS 144B	RHS 146B	RHS 144C
	(Medium	(Medium	(Medium
	yellow-green)	yellow-green)	yellow-green)
Petiolule color	RHS 144B	RHS 146C	RHS 144C
	(Medium	(Medium	(Medium
	yellow-green)	yellow-green)	yellow-green)
Petiolule length	7.21	8.63	12.26
(mm)
Petiolule	0.165	0.170	0.145
diameter (cm)
Bract frequency	1	1	0
Stipule length	3.8	3.3	3.3
(cm)
Stipule width	0.694	0.929	0.897
(cm)
Stipule	Dense	Medium	Dense
pubescence
Stipule	RHS 145D	RHS 149D	RHS 149D
anthocyanin	(Light	(Light	(Light
coloration	yellow-green)	yellow-green)	yellow-green)

Table 4 shows stolon characteristics of the new cultivar compared to ‘San Juan’ and ‘Driscoll Lanai’. These characteristics include the number of stolons, average number of daughter plants, the anthocyanin coloration of the stolons, the thickness of the stolons, and the pubescence of the stolons.

TABLE 4
Characteristic	‘DrisStrawFourteen’	‘San Juan’	‘Driscoll Lanai’
Stolon number	Medium	Between	Many
		medium
		and many
Average number	30+	57	67
of daughter plants
Stolon	RHS 60C	RHS 59A	RHS 60A
anthocyanin	(Dark red-	(Dark red-	(Dark red-
	purple)	purple)	purple)
Stolon thickness	Medium	Medium	Between
			medium
			and thick
Stolon pubescence	Medium	Medium	Dense

Table 5 shows inflorescence characteristics of the new cultivar compared to ‘San Juan’ and ‘Driscoll Lanai’. These characteristics include inflorescence position relative to foliage, time of flowering, relative flower size, flower diameter in centimeters (measured from petal tip to petal tip), petal shape, relative spacing of petals, petal apex, base and margin, petal length in centimeters, petal width in centimeters, petal length to width ratio, number of petals, petal color, calyx diameter in centimeters (measured on back of flower from sepal tip to sepal tip), diameter of calyx relative to corolla, diameter of inner calyx relative to outer, sepal shape, apex and margin, sepal length in centimeters (measured from sepal tip to point of attachment to receptacle), sepal width in centimeters, number of sepals, receptacle color and anther color.

TABLE 5
Characteristic	‘DrisStrawFourteen’	‘San Juan’	‘Driscoll Lanai’
Inflorescence	Level with	Beneath	Level with
position
relative to foliage
Time of flowering	Between	Between	Between
(50% of plants	early and	early and	early and
at first flower)	medium	medium	medium
Flower size	Medium	Medium	Medium
Flower diameter	2.430	2.792	2.540
(cm)
Petal shape	Orbicular	Orbicular	Orbicular
Petal spacing	Overlapping	Overlapping	Overlapping
Petal apex shape	Rounded	Rounded	Rounded
Petal margin	Entire	Entire	Entire
Petal base shape	Concave-	Concave-	Rounded
	convex	convex
Petal length (cm)	1.216	1.347	1.221
Petal width (cm)	1.149	1.469	1.285
Petal length/	As long as	As long as	As long as
width ratio	broad	broad	broad
Petal length/	1.1	0.9	1.0
width ratio
Typical and	6	6	7
observed petal
number
Petal color	RHS 155C	RHS 155D	RHS 155B
	(White)	(White)	(White)
Calyx diameter	3.444	3.631	3.228
(cm)
Calyx diameter	Larger	Larger	Larger
relative to corolla
Inner calyx	Same size	Same size	Same size
diameter relative
to outer
Sepal shape	Oval	Oval	Oval
Sepal apex shape	Convex	Convex	Convex
Sepal margin	Entire	Entire	Entire
Sepal length (cm)	1.369	1.461	1.150
Sepal width (cm)	0.681	0.767	0.461
Typical and	13	13	13
observed sepal
number
Receptacle color	RHS 2A	RHS 151A	RHS N144B
	(Medium yellow)	(Medium	(Medium
		yellow-green)	yellow-green)
Anther color	RHS 152B	RHS 178A	RHS 163A
	(Medium	(Dark greyed-	(Medium
	yellow-green)	red)	greyed-orange)

Table 6 shows fruit characteristics of the new cultivar compared to ‘San Juan’ and ‘Driscoll Lanai’. These characteristics include fruiting truss length in centimeters, fruiting truss diameter, number of berries per truss, fruiting truss attitude, fruiting truss color, fruit length in centimeters, fruit truss width in centimeters, fruit length to width ratio, fruit hollow length and width in centimeters, fruit hollow length to width ratio, fruit weight in grams, relative fruit size, predominant fruit shape, difference in shape between primary and secondary fruits, band without achenes, unevenness of fruit surface, fruit skin color, evenness of fruit color, fruit glossiness, insertion of achenes, achene coloration (sunward and shaded sides of berry) and the number of achenes per berry.

TABLE 6
Characteristic	‘DrisStrawFourteen’	‘San Juan’	‘Driscoll Lanai’
Fruiting truss	18.8	22.8	17.2
length (cm)
Fruiting truss	Medium	Between	Medium
length (general)		medium
		and long
Fruiting truss	0.429	0.391	0.327
diameter (cm) at
base of truss
Number of berries	4	4	4
per fruiting truss
Fruiting truss	Prostrate	Prostrate	Prostrate
attitude
Fruiting truss	RHS 144A	RHS 144A	RHS 144A
color at base	(Medium	(Medium	(Medium
of truss	yellow-green)	yellow-green)	yellow-green)
Fruit length (cm)	4.149	4.349	3.752
Fruit width (cm)	3.840	3.784	3.683
Fruit length/	1.1	1.1	1.0
width ratio
Fruit hollow	2.139	1.837	1.222
length (cm)
Fruit hollow	0.716	0.538	0.424
width (cm)
Fruit hollow	3.0	3.4	2.9
length/width ratio
Fruit weight (g)	29.1	25.4	24.9
Fruit ratio of	As long as	As long as	As long as
length/maximum	broad	broad	broad
width
Relative fruit size	Medium	Medium	Medium
Predominant	Conical	Conical	Conical and
fruit shape			almost
			cylindrical
Difference in shape	Slight	Slight	Slight
between primary
and secondary fruits
Band without	Absent or very	Broad	Narrow
achenes	narrow
Unevenness of	Weak	Medium	Weak
fruit surface
Fruit skin color	RHS 46B	RHS 46A	RHS 46A
	(Dark red)	(Dark red)	(Dark red)
Evenness of	Even	Slightly	Even
fruit color		uneven
Fruit glossiness	Medium	Medium	Medium
Insertion of	Below surface	Level with	Above surface
achenes	to above surface	surface
Achene coloration	RHS 185A	RHS 183C	RHS 176A
(sunward side of	(Dark greyed-	(Dark greyed-	(Dark greyed-
berry)	purple)	purple)	orange)
Achene coloration	RHS N144B	RHS 152C	RHS 152C
(shaded side of	(Medium	(Medium	(Medium
berry)	yellow-green)	yellow-green)	yellow-green)
Achenes per berry	340.6	273.4	294.5

Table 7 shows fruit characteristics of the new cultivar compared to ‘San Juan’ and ‘Driscoll Lanai’. These characteristics include the harvest maturity, insertion of calyx, pose of calyx segments, size of calyx in relation to fruit, adherence of calyx, firmness of flesh, color of the fruit flesh, evenness of the flesh color, distribution of flesh color, hollow center, sweetness of fruit, acidity of fruit, texture of fruit when tasted, type of bearing, grams of fruit per plant.

TABLE 7
Characteristic	‘DrisStrawFourteen’	‘San Juan’	‘Driscoll Lanai’
Harvest	Late March	Late March	Late March
interval	to early	to early	to early
	November	November	November
Harvest	Late	Between	Between
maturity		early and	early and
		mid-season	mid-season
Insertion of	Level	Set above	Level
calyx		fruit
Pose of calyx	Reflexed	Reflexed	Reflexed
segments
Size of calyx	From same	Same size	From same
in relation to	size to		size to
fruit	larger		larger
Adherence of	Strong	Strong	Medium
calyx
Firmness of	Firm	Medium	Medium
flesh
Color of	RHS 155D	RHS 155B	RHS 155C
the flesh	(White) and	(White) and	(White) and
	RHS 43B	RHS 43A	RHS 46A
	(Medium red)	(Medium red)	(Dark red)
Evenness of	Slightly	Slightly	Slightly
flesh color	uneven	uneven	uneven
Distribution	Marginal	Marginal	Marginal
of flesh color	and central	and central	and central
Hollow center	Large	Small	Small
Sweetness	Medium	Medium	Medium
Acidity	Medium	Medium	Medium
Texture when	Medium	Medium	Medium
tasted
Type of bearing	Partially	Partially	Partially
	everbearing	everbearing	everbearing
Grams of fruit/	1,463	1,303	1,699
plant

Table 8 shows pest, stress and disease characteristics of the new cultivar compared to ‘San Juan’ and ‘Driscoll Lanai’.

TABLE 8
Pest, Stress,
or Disease	‘DrisStrawFourteen’	‘San Juan’	‘Driscoll Lanai’
Botrytis	Moderately	Susceptible	Susceptible
fruit rot	resistant
Powdery	Between resistant	Susceptible	Susceptible
mildew	and moderately
	resistant
Verticillium	Moderately	Susceptible	Moderately
wilt	resistant		susceptible
Rain	Between resistant	Between resistant	Moderately
	and moderately	and moderately	resistant
	resistant	resistant

COMPARISON WITH PARENTAL AND COMMERCIAL CULTIVARS

When ‘DrisStrawFourteen’ is compared to the proprietary female parent ‘159K312’ (unpatented), ‘DrisStrawFourteen’ has larger fruit and better organic performance than does ‘159K312 ’ .

When ‘DrisStrawFourteen’ is compared to the proprietary male parent ‘128K296’ (unpatented), ‘DrisStrawFourteen’ has larger fruit and better organic performance than does ‘128K296’.

When ‘DrisStrawFourteen’ is compared to the commercial variety ‘San Juan’, ‘DrisStrawFourteen’ has softer but more fruit in the second half of the season than does ‘San Juan’.

Table 9 shows selected plant characteristics of the new variety compared with plant characteristics of ‘San Juan’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,899) and ‘Driscoll Lanai’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 15,145). Plant characteristics include terminal leaflet margin profile, insertion of achenes, and fruit production.

TABLE 9
Characteristic	‘DrisStrawFourteen’	‘San Juan’	‘Driscoll Lanai’
Terminal leaflet	Flat	Revolute	Revolute
margin profile		to flat	to flat
Insertion of	Below surface to	Level with	Above
achenes	above surface	surface	surface
Fruit production,	1,463	1,303	1,699
grams/plant

Claims

1. A new and distinct cultivar of strawberry plant as described and shown herein.