EU GENRES Carrot Project
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CEC CONTRACT GENRES CT99-105 |
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The Future of European Carrot: a programme to conserve, characterise, evaluate and collect carrot and wild relatives
The Carrot, Daucus carota, is an important commercial vegetable. The genus Daucus is also a native to Europe and hence a responsibility of EU Countries under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The project dealt with the genepool of carrot and its wild relatives, aiming to co-ordinate work in European collections through five main areas of activity:
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the conservation and documentation of European collections |
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characterisation for minimal descriptors |
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evaluation for important horticultural characters, such as pest and disease resistance and chemical composition |
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sort and rationalise the collections |
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collection of germplasm to fill gaps in collections. |
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Matching funding for the GENRES 105 project in the Warwick HRI GRU came from the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.
