Scientists Have Discovered Why Carrots Are Orange
Researchers have sequenced the cultivated carrot genome , and their findings assist explicate how the vegetable became so orange . Its characteristic hue may have start up out as a defect . The work , publish inNature Geneticsthis week , is one of the most double-dyed vegetable genome assembly known . The unfounded ancestors of carrots ( Daucus carota ) have modest white roots , and the solution of the first domesticated carrot – in Central Asia some 1,100 years ago – were yellow and royal ....