Inflorescence Orientation on One-Year Strawberry Plants

Experiments on different varieties showed that a majority of the inflorescences of moderately sized, one-year plants were produced on the side of the plant opposite to the parent stolon. There was also shown a southward trend of the inflorescences, most significant when the parent runner was planted on the west. It is suggested that these effects are due to a combination of phototropism and an effect arising from the tilted angle that the runner plant crown forms with its roots, and that this might be of use for orientating most of the fruit conveniently on one side of the plant in intensive systems of cultivation.