While carrots come in many colors, orange carrots have been the most popular due to their sweetness and color. [Related: Carrots were once a crucial tool in anti-Nazi propaganda.] In the study, a team ...

I've read in several garden books about how carrots weren't originally orange. The first carrots cultivated were purple or yellow. Orange came much later. But how, and why? None of the books I read ...

A new study of the genetic blueprints of more than 600 types of carrot shows that three specific genes are required to give carrots an orange color. Surprisingly, these three required genes all need ...

Although broccoli is America's favorite vegetable, carrots are a close second. We enjoy using them as a crunchy vehicle for dipping, slipping slivers of them into salads, and mixing shredded pieces ...

A new study has revealed what gives carrots their orange colour. Researchers looked at the genetic blueprints of more than 600 types of the root vegetable, and found that three specific genes are ...

The humble supermarket carrot owes its deep orange colour to a newly found gene, according to an analysis of the full carrot genome. Researchers identified more than 32,000 genes in a typical orange ...