Germplasm Image Acquisition for SCRI Project - 2018

Resource Type: 
Analysis
Name: 
Germplasm Image Acquisition for SCRI Project - 2018
Description: 

Images from carrot roots grown in 2018 used by the SCRI Project

Grown at the University of Wisconsin Hancock Agricultural Research Station (44.117850, -89.552265) from May to October 2018.

Program, Pipeline, Workflow or Method Name: 
Photography
Program Version: 
2018
Date Performed: 
Monday, April 29, 2024 - 17:14
Data Source: 
Source Name
: SCRI 2022
Stock: 
There are 643 accession stocks
There are 2 breeding_research_material stocks
There are 3 cultivar stocks
There are 51 generated germplasm stocks
Total: 699
Project: 
NameDescription

Specialty Crop Research Initiative, Award Number 2022-51181-38321, September 2022 to September 2026

Summary: Carrots are the richest source of provitamin A in the U.S. diet, one of the most widely consumed and nutritious vegetables in the world and worth $863M to U.S. growers. A survey of stakeholders revealed that the carrot industry needs breeding stocks and genomic tools that can be used to develop carrots with improved field performance including disease and pest resistance; abiotic stress tolerance to meet growing market demands; and improved flavor and nutritional quality to better meet consumer needs. To address these needs, we recently screened the national germplasm collection of around 700 diverse carrot accessions and identified new sources of genes for improving carrot productivity and quality, expanding product development, and strengthening economic viability. Improved cultivars with these traits will provide a cost-effective, environmentally favorable means to deliver an improved carrot crop to growers, processors and consumers, but carrot breeders will need tools to track genes for improving the crop, and tested breeding stocks to efficiently develop superior cultivars. Consistent with SCRI goals for breeding and genomics, outreach and economic viability for stakeholders, our goals are to: 1) Develop cost-effective genomic tools to advance carrot breeding populations with these economically and nutritionally significant traits identified by stakeholders; 2) Map genes underlying economically important traits so breeders can effectively deploy them to growers, processors and consumers; 3) Evaluate bioavailability of nutrients in carrots with varying nutrient composition that may influence nutritional impact; and 4) Evaluate the market value and impact of carrot traits on grower and consumer decisions.

  • Objective 1: Develop cost-effective genomic tools to advance breeding populations and integrate loci related to economically significant traits identified by stakeholders
  • Objective 2: Use multi-parental and biparental populations to map gene locations of economically important traits using optimized genomic-assisted strategies
  • Objective 3: Evaluate the bioavailability of nutrients in selected breeding stocks with varying nutrient compositions that may influence bioavailability
  • Objective 4: Estimate economic costs and benefits to buyers and the industry of improved traits and assess the broad societal value of these improvements

Link to project summary in the United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Current Research Information System

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ImagesAnnotations
  • date: 2018-10-26
  • File Name: 7393B_3.jpg
  • generated germplasm: U7393
  • legend: Image of root grown in Hancock, Wisconsin USA taken 2018-10-26
  • photo provider: USDA ARS VCRU
  • accession: Ames 22389
  • date: 2018-08-28
  • File Name: Ames_22389_3.jpg
  • legend: Image of root grown in Hancock, Wisconsin USA taken 2018-08-28
  • photo provider: USDA ARS VCRU
  • accession: Ames 25040
  • date: 2018-08-28
  • File Name: Ames_25040_3.jpg
  • legend: Image of root grown in Hancock, Wisconsin USA taken 2018-08-28
  • photo provider: USDA ARS VCRU
  • accession: Ames 25043
  • date: 2018-08-28
  • File Name: Ames_25043_3.jpg
  • legend: Image of root grown in Hancock, Wisconsin USA taken 2018-08-28
  • photo provider: USDA ARS VCRU
  • accession: Ames 25075
  • date: 2018-08-28
  • File Name: Ames_25075_2.jpg
  • legend: Image of root grown in Hancock, Wisconsin USA taken 2018-08-28
  • photo provider: USDA ARS VCRU
  • accession: Ames 25076
  • date: 2018-08-28
  • File Name: Ames_25076_3.jpg
  • legend: Image of root grown in Hancock, Wisconsin USA taken 2018-08-28
  • photo provider: USDA ARS VCRU
  • accession: Ames 27398
  • date: 2018-08-28
  • File Name: Ames_27398.jpg
  • legend: Image of root grown in Hancock, Wisconsin USA taken 2018-08-28
  • photo provider: USDA ARS VCRU
  • accession: Ames 27399
  • date: 2018-08-28
  • File Name: Ames_27399_3.jpg
  • legend: Image of root grown in Hancock, Wisconsin USA taken 2018-08-28
  • photo provider: USDA ARS VCRU
  • accession: Ames 27400
  • date: 2018-08-28
  • File Name: Ames_27400_3.jpg
  • legend: Image of root grown in Hancock, Wisconsin USA taken 2018-08-28
  • photo provider: USDA ARS VCRU
  • accession: Ames 27404
  • date: 2018-08-28
  • File Name: Ames_27404_2.jpg
  • legend: Image of root grown in Hancock, Wisconsin USA taken 2018-08-28
  • photo provider: USDA ARS VCRU
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