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Released
Cultivars:
Chambly
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Oka |
Joliette |
Yamaska |
L'Acadie |
Orléans |
Saint-Pierre |
Harmonie |
Saint-Laurent d'Orléans |
St-Jean d'Orléans | La Clé des Champs | AAC Generous | AAC Sens | LL0311-43 Decorative red flowering strawberry cultivars: Rosalyne | Roseberry | Advanced Day neutral Ever bearing: FIN005-55 | FIN005-7 | Other advance line |
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La Clé des Champs
A new June bearing strawberry cultivar for Eastern Central Canada and climates similar to Quebec conditionsAdditional index words: Fragaria ´ananassa, fruit breeding, storage, shelf life, red stele
‘Clé des Champs’ is a new June bearing strawberry cultivar (Fragaria X ananassa Duch.), bred for Eastern Central Canada and climates similar to
Origin
‘Clé des Champs’, tested as LL9324-24, is a progeny resulting from a cross between ‘SJ89244-6E’ and ‘SJ8518-11’ made in 1993 by S. Khanizadeh. ‘Clé des Champs’ has been tested at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) sub-station in L’Acadie,
Description
Plants of ‘Clé des Champs’ are vigorous, and produce about five inflorescences per crown. They can tolerate winter temperatures below –30°C with 10 cm straw mulch cover. Petioles are short with three, medium green, cupped and obtuse leaflets, with obtuse teeth. The terminal leaflets are slightly longer than broad, have a 1.25 length:width ratio, and the flowers are perfect.
‘Clé des Champs’ produces attractive large, light red, shiny fruit.
The fruit shape is
globose-conic. The flesh is orange-red almost throughout and very
firm.
Fresh fruit store well for up to 5 days at room temperature
(20oC) with no sign of mold or deterioration compared to ‘
A completely randomized design with four replicates was set up in 2002 and also in 2003 to compare ‘Clé des Champs’ with selected known commercially grown cultivars. ‘Clé des Champs’ produces similar yield to ‘
Chemical analysis of the fruit by an HPLC method (Rekika et. al. 2005) revealed that ’Clé des Champs’ was higher in hydroxycinnamic acids (5.88 ppm p-coumaric acid equivalent) and benzoic acids (27.2 ppm gallic acid equivalent) than ’Kent’ and ’Jewel’ cultivars (4 and 4.3 ppm; 10.7 and 15.6 ppm, respectively). In contrast, fruit of ’Clé des Champs’ contain lower amounts of anthocyanins and flavonols (114.5 ppm cyanidins-3-galactoside equivalent and 4.5 ppm quercitin-3-galactoside equivalent) than ’Jewel’ (140.2 and 6.4 ppm, respectively) but slightly higher amounts than ’Kent’ (103.8 and 4.2 ppm, respectively). The high potential of ’Clé des Champs’ fruit (high firmness, long shelf life, no symptoms of gray mold fruit rot and powdery mildew disease) could be due to its high content of phenolic compounds, benzoic and hydroxycinnamic acids, as well as their high antioxidant capacity (Rekika et al., 2005; Wang et al., 1994).
Previous findings showed that benzoic acids have antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant properties to prevent food spoilage and to enhance quality and shelf life (Baldwin et al., 1995; Khan et al., 1999). Lindhard Pedersen (2003) found that disease resistance of five black currant cultivars was correlated to high levels of hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives. These acids can react with organic molecules, as amino acid and synthesis of toxic secondary metabolites become highly toxic to pathogen proliferation (Nicholson and Hammerschmidt, 1992).
‘Clé des Champs’ is recommended for Eastern Central Canada, especially in areas where the climate is similar to that in the strawberry production areas of
Availability
Contact the licenced nurseries or the breeder.