**5. Conclusions**

During the present century, except for explorations in China, strawberry germplasm collections have ceased. In attention to the serious phytosanitary problems of strawberries, international collaboration is important to take advantage of the germplasm collections and populations derived from them, deposited in different repositories, and characterize them for those cases of global problems. Simultaneously with the above, evaluation techniques must be developed to rigorously characterize the germplasm reaction and identify the sources of valuable genes.

Faced with the need to mitigate global phytosanitary problems, genetic resources must provide part of the solution, and use those underused genes to form more rustic strawberry genotypes for biotic and abiotic factors, and with better nutraceutical quality of the fruit.
