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Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.), a commercially important fruit in the world, has various fruit shapes. For example, fruits harvested from multi-parent advanced-generation inter-cross (MAGIC) populations, mixed the genomes of six founder parents randomly, showed distinctive shapes: elongated, round, triangular, square, forked, constricted, and others as well as a shape similar to the parent. Quantification of fruit shapes by image analysis is the first step toward understanding the genetics of fruit-shape and controlling strawberry shape (This issue, p. 167–175).

(S. Nagamatsu: Fukuoka Agriculture and Forestry Research Center)