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Carrot red leaf associated RNA (CtRLVaRNA) was originally described in Californian carrots (Daucus carota L.) (Watson et al., 1998). It has also been reported from parsley (Petroselenium crispum) in Belgium (Vercruysse et al., 2000).
Cause: Meloidogyne hapla, a nematode that also attacks other vege-table crops. The Columbia root-knot nematode, M. chitwoodi, is not an economic problem on carrots.
Weed management in domestic carrot production is characterized by high yield loss potential, few herbicides, and heavy reliance on handweeding. The most troublesome weed in carrot is volunteer potato and no herbicides are registered for control of the wee...
PUBLISHED PAPERS RELATING TO CARROT (Daucus carota L.) (in date order) Davey, J.C., Horgan, G.W. & Talbot, M. 1997 Image analysis: a tool for assessing plant uniformity and variety matching. In: Proceedings of the fifth meeting of the EUCARPIA Carrot Working Group. Krakow.
bstract In a field experiment with a susceptible population of annual wild carrot (Daucus carota) from Iran, artificial inoculations with the fungal pathogen A. dauci led to a strong and very significant increase of the diseased leaf area.
Here you can find an short abstract of the research projet 'Investigations on the dynamic of growth of selected carrot varieties from biodynamic and conventional breeding lines, on the optimization of the carrot cultivation and the quality of carrot seeds.' of Unit 'Organic Farming and Cropping' at