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 ...

Carrots may be closely associated with the color orange, but it turns out that these brightly-hued veg get their color due to only three specific genes. Research into the genetics of 630 types of ...

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 ...

Imagine 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.

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 ...

One of the easiest ways to identify an object is by its color -- perhaps it is because children's books encourage us to pair certain objects with their respective colors. Why else would so many of us ...