Location: Vegetable Crops Research
Project Number: 5090-21000-069-008-T
Project Type: Trust Fund Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Sep 1, 2014
End Date: Aug 31, 2019
Objective:
1) Evaluation of carrot wild relatives in warm, dry, or saline field conditions.
2) Intercrossing of climate-resilient traits from wild relatives to adapted, nutritious cultivated germplasm.
3) Field trialing of intercrosses and their derivatives.
Approach:
Collect and distribute carrot seed including wild relatives; grow carrots in abiotic stress conditions including saline, hot, and dry environments; intercross selected carrots; and develop molecular markers to track important genes.