Pieter Aertsen, Market woman with vegetable stall, 1567, Oil on wood, 110 x 110 cm, Stiftung preußischer Kulturbesitz, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Mission
The mission of the Vegetable Crops Research Unit is to improve potato, carrot, onion, cucumber, and cranberry crop production and quality through germplasm preservation, characterization, enhancement, and release; investigations of crop genetics, taxonomy, gene flow, disease and pest resistance, postharvest storage physiology, abiotic stress resilience, flavor and nutritional quality; and development of molecular tools, pest management and plant breeding strategies.