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Crop domestication

The changing colour of carrot

Nature Plants volume 9, pages 1583–1584 (2023)Cite this article

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By assembling a high-quality carrot reference genome and resequencing 630 accessions, a study by Coe et al. reveals the transformative journey of carrot from wild progenitor to modern cultivar and the concomitant accumulation of carotenoids in its taproot.

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Fig. 1: Domestication and improvement of carrots.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Innovative Academy of Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Yafei Guo & Fei Lu

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Yafei Guo & Fei Lu

  3. CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Fei Lu

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Guo, Y., Lu, F. The changing colour of carrot. Nat. Plants 9, 1583–1584 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01523-9

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