brassica
Noun
Meaning
A genus of plants embracing several species and varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape or coleseed (B. napus), etc.
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Almost half of these crops were grown in China, where Chinese cabbage is the most popular Brassica vegetable.
As a weed it does outcompete other crops for nutrients, water and sunlight and one of its drawbacks is that it hosts nematodes, insect pests and plant diseases, not least Verticillium; a fungal pathogen that causes vascular wilt of brassica.
It originates from the brassica species.
Radiation processing for enhancing shelf life and quality characteristics of minimally processed ready-to-cook (RTC) cauliflower (Brassica oleracea).
Wild cabbage main Early farmers cultivated many popular vegetables from the Brassica oleracea (wild cabbage) by artificially selecting for certain attributes.
Katz and Weaver, p. 284 The headed cabbage variety was known to Greeks as krambe and to Romans as brassica or olus; citation the open, leafy variety (kale) was known in Greek as raphanos and in Latin as caulis.