irregularexercise: girlgrowingsmall: Okay… maybe genetically modified food has gone too far…. I think the sizes are just to do with the number of chromosomes of the plant cells (ploidy), these might be more or less natural fruit sizes besides their being a European/North American hybrid. Smaller strawberries are most likely diploid, but I’m pretty sure they can get all the way up to octoploid, and with each set of chromosomes the fruit gets larger. Polyploids are more common in plants than diploids, but I don’t know what would make the ploidy become so high that you’d get a monster strawberry like that!

irregularexercise:

girlgrowingsmall:

Okay… maybe genetically modified food has gone too far….

I think the sizes are just to do with the number of chromosomes of the plant cells (ploidy), these might be more or less natural fruit sizes besides their being a European/North American hybrid. Smaller strawberries are most likely diploid, but I’m pretty sure they can get all the way up to octoploid, and with each set of chromosomes the fruit gets larger.

Polyploids are more common in plants than diploids, but I don’t know what would make the ploidy become so high that you’d get a monster strawberry like that!

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