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An investigation was made into the causes why bolters occur in carrot cultivation. In the first year of cultivation blooming plants are the result of a gene flow from wild to cultivated carrots. Hybridization may occur in areas where cultivated carrots are grown for seed production. Apart from bolters producing inedible roots such hybridization also causes a decline in quality of cultivated carrots in general. Small changes in morphological and phenological characteristics of the wild carrot are due to introgression from the cultivated carrot.
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Wijnheijmer, E.H.M., Brandenburg, W.A. & Ter Borg, S.J. Interactions between wild and cultivated carrots (Daucus carota L.) in the Netherlands. Euphytica 40, 147–154 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00023309
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