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HORT410 - Vegetable Crops
Carrots - Notes
Common name: Carrot.
Latin name: Daucus carota L. subsp. sativus.
Family name: Umbelliferae (Apiaceae) [Apiaceae Images].
Closely related to the wild carrot (Daucus carota L.) (Queen Anne's Lace), with white roots.
Relatives used as vegetables: celery, celeriac,
and parsnip.
Dicotyledon.
Diploid (2n = 18, diploid).
Biennial.
Origin: Near East (Afghanistan) and central Asia.
Brought to N. America by early European settlers in the 1600's.
Carrot history (TAMU).
Harvested organ: roots.
Orange, red, yellow, white and crimson rooted carrot cultivars developed.
Rich in provitamin A carotenes.
Cool-to-moderate season.
Temperature optimum: 15 - 21 C.
Propagation: seeds sown in rows on raised beds [precision seeding recommended].
Days to harvest maturity: 75 to 90 days.
Typically machine harvested.
Major insect pests of carrots in the Midwest:
(see: ID-56: Midwest Vegetable Production Guide for Commercial Growers 2003 - Root Crops (PURDUE) [pdf] for carrot crop recommendations (varieties, spacing, fertilizing, disease, weed and insect control) for the Midwest)
Sources of information:
Mahr, S., Eastman, C., Royer, T. Root crops. In "Vegetable Insect Management With Emphasis on the Midwest", (ed. R. Foster, B. Flood), Meister Publishing Co., Willoughby, Ohio, pp. 179 - 192 (1995).
Nonnecke, I.L. "Vegetable Production", Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY (1989).
Phillips, R., Rix, M. "The Random House Book of Vegetables", Random House, NY (1993).
Simon, P.W. Carrot, Daucus carota L. In "Genetic Improvement of Vegetable Crops", (ed. G. Kalloo, B.O. Bergh), Pergamon Press, Oxford, U.K., pp. 479-484 (1993).
Maynard, D.N. Carrot. In "The Software Toolworks Multimedia Encyclopedia", Version 1.5, Grolier, Inc. (1992).
Midwest Vegetable Production Guide for Commercial Growers, ID-56, eds. R. Foster, D. Egel, E. Maynard, R. Weinzierl, H. Taber, L.W. Jett, B. Hutchinson, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service, 2003.
Kotecha, P.M., Desai, B.B., Madhavi, D.L. Carrot. In "Handbook of Vegetable Science and Technology: Production, Composition, Storage, and Processing", (ed. D.K. Salunkhe, S.S. Kadam), Marcel Dekker, Inc., NY, pp. 119 - 139 (1998).
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