Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While carrots come in many colors, orange carrots have been the most popular due to their sweetness and color. [Related: Carrots ...

Researchers have uncovered the three genes responsible for the orange color of carrots in a study of 600 carrot genomes. Carotenoids, the pigments that give carrots their color, are precursors of ...

Purple carrots? But do they taste any different? August is the month that heirloom varieties and modern hybrids cavort in the farmers’ markets around town. Heirlooms are persnickety, and take longer ...

While perusing the produce aisle of your grocery store, be on the lookout for rainbow baby carrots. We used them in today’s roasted vegetable recipe, and they really added a wonderful pop of color.

At 10 a.m. on a recent Tuesday, the lunchroom at Nunhems vegetable seed research station in Brooks smelled of carrot spice muffins and just-brewed coffee. Employees eyed a long table, covered with ...

magine a child’s eyes when he pulls a carrot from the garden and it is red or white or even purple. You can now find carrots in all of these colors as well as the familiar orange and tangerine.

Genome sequencing reveals how carrots have become good at accumulating carotenoids, the pigment compounds that give them their characteristic colors and nutritional richness. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC ...

COLLEGE STATION – In the late 1980s, Dr. Leonard Pike stood at a roadside vegetable market in Russia and watched a produce man chop, chop, chop much like a butcher slicing deli meat. When he was ...