**7. Future prospects in strawberry breeding**

Thanks to the increase of genomic studies in plant breeding, it consists of many areas, such as the development of new approaches and strategies in order to shorten processes, such as the development of promising new cultivars or genotypes with desired characteristics. In this way, advances in strawberry breeding depending on genomic developments are very important processes for octoploid cultural strawberries. Detection of the four sub-genomes of the strawberry genome and different next-generation sequencing methods will provide the opportunity to make a more accurate genetic assembly. The genomic selection in the early period can take place with a more accurate and easier explanation of the functions of the SNPs associated with all traits of the strawberry. The identification and characterization of candidate gene regions linked by economically important traits will facilitate advances in genomic selection. Achieving the targeted objectives in strawberry breeding will enable high-density genetic and physical maps to be obtained and effective marker-assisted selection with the reduction of sequencing unit costs.

In breeding studies, geneticists, breeders, and even farmers want to monitor the process of identifying the underlying biological problems of a phenotypic trait and those associated with genomics. Therefore, many studies have been conducted on the detection of QTLs associated with many traits. However, not only the determination of QTL regions but also the detection of structural and copy number variations will allow the related trait to be examined from a wider perspective. As a result, researching the functions of candidate genes associated with traits and post-transcriptional translation processes, including epigenetic variations, supplies the necessary infrastructure in genomic sequencing. In the future, it will be possible to replace undesirable loci associated with desired traits with methods such as CRISPR-cas9.

Therefore, new loci associated with traits will be discovered in many breeding programs with new technological and genomic approaches in future strawberry breeding.
