Carrot remains one of the priority vegetable crops of the Philippines, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (2020), with the Cordillera Administrative Region as the major producer in 2016 contributing 88.9% of the commodity in the Philippines. In the field of plant tissue culture although carrot somatic embryogenesis has extensively served as a model system for early plant development for over 50 years, the illustrations and drawings depicting the various stages in many literatures has remained incomplete. It is with the current journal article that the “triangle stage” was clearly and definitively documented using the modified protocol.
{Photographs courtesy of Mr. John Llloyd Talosig, Human Resource Management Section (HRMS), Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI) - Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Forestry Campus College, Los Banos}
