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Plant genetic resources offer the essential raw material of genetic diversity for crop improvement. Globally, ex situ carrot germplasm collections are extensive with >13,400 listed by 62 different institutes. The majority of accessions conserved are of cultivated origin, and however, recent interest and recognition of the importance of crop wild relatives have led to an increase in the number of wild Daucus accessions conserved in genebanks. Carrot genetic resources can also be conserved in situ and on-farm methods which are particularly applicable to wild and landrace material. The scale of global Daucus collections means that the identification and use of core collections and subsets is helpful in order to reflect genepool variation with manageable numbers of samples.
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Allender, C. (2019). Genetic Resources for Carrot Improvement. In: Simon, P., Iorizzo, M., Grzebelus, D., Baranski, R. (eds) The Carrot Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03389-7_6
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