| Description | Carrot is a nutritious Apiaceae vegetable with a long cultivation history. The cultivated variety of carrot has edible storage roots compared to the wild carrot. The carrot varieties with orange root are most popularly cultivated around the world because of their abundant carotene content, and the Nante-type carrot is a classic orange-root carrot variety. However, Alternaria leaf blight is one of the most damaging foliar diseases in carrot field production, causing significant yield losses every year. |
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