Woodland strawberry has proved to be an efficient model system for the identification and functional characterization of genes controlling reproductive traits . It is one of the subgenome donors of the allo-octoploid garden strawberry and its parental species F. virginiana and F. chiloensis , and according to recent octoploid strawberry genome paper, F. vesca genome dominates over other subgenomes in the control of some traits. Therefore, we hypothesize that studies on natural variation in woodland strawberry populations along its wide geographical distribution could be very successful in the identification of genetic variation controlling reproductive development and other important traits. Recent development of genome editing protocols for woodland strawberry is expected to enable more efficient functional validation of newly identified candidate genes . These knowledge could facilitate the development of gene-specific markers for important traits in garden strawberry, the screening of genetic variation in wild octoploid species and their utilization in cultivar breeding through introgressions, as well as targeted breeding using genome editing