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In the United States, a group purchasing organization (GPO) is an entity that is created to leverage the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members. [1] Many GPOs are funded by administrative fees which are paid by the vendors that GPOs oversee.
Articles relating to the Carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus), a root vegetable, typically orange in color, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist, all of which are domesticated forms of the wild carrot, Daucus carota, native to Europe and Southwestern Asia.
Workers harvesting carrots by hand, Imperial Valley, California, 1948. Carrots are grown from seed and can take up to four months (120 days) to mature, but most cultivars mature within 70 to 80 days under the right conditions. [34] They grow best in full sun but tolerate some shade. [35] The optimum temperature is 16 to 21 °C (61 to 70 °F). [36]
Daucus carota, whose common names include wild carrot, [3] European wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's lace, and Queen Anne's lace (North America), is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae.
A carrot soup A vegan carrot bread prepared with carrot and raisins. This is a list of carrot dishes and foods, which use carrot as a primary ingredient. The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, red, white, and yellow varieties exist.
Dieback of carrots Pythium spp. Pythium debaryanum. Downy mildew Plasmopara crustosa = Plasmopara nivea. Forking, brown root Pythium spp. Pythium irregulare Pythium paroecandrum Pythium sylvaticum. Fusarium dry rot Fusarium sp. Gray mold rot Botryotinia fuckeliana Botrytis cinerea [anamorph] Hard rot Fusarium sp. Gliocladium roseum. Lateral ...
Alternatively, pickled carrots may be prepared in the nukazuke fashion — fermented in a mixture of roasted rice bran, salt, konbu, and other ingredients. Nukazuke pickled carrots are usually served alongside set meals. [3] In India, traditional pickled carrots are known as gajar nu athanu.
A 3-dimensional stick diagram of β-carotene Carotene is responsible for the orange colour of carrots and the colours of many other fruits and vegetables and even some animals. Lesser Flamingos in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. The pink colour of wild flamingos is due to astaxanthin (a carotenoid) they absorb from their diet of brine shrimp ...