CEC CONTRACT GENRES CT99-105

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:

Matching funding for the GENRES 105 project in the Warwick HRI GRU came from the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.