Brassica rapa subsp. Pekinensis

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Scientific name: Brassica rapa subsp. Pekinensis

Common name(s): Chinese Cabbage

Name as shown in Phylogenes: Chinese cabbage

Ploidy: Diploid

Description:

Brassica rapa subsp. Pekinensis, commonly known as Chinese cabbage, is a widely cultivated crop grown for its edible leaves. It is a member of the Brassicaceae that includes a number of other important crops such as oilseed rape, mustards, broccoli and is a relative of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

It is useful as a model for domestication, morphological diversity, and, due to an ancient genome triplication event, as a tool to study genome evolution.

Reference(s): 

  1. Wang X, et al. Brassica rapa Genome Sequencing Project Consortium. The genome of the mesopolyploid crop species Brassica rapa. Nat Genet. 2011 Aug 28;43(10):1035-9. doi: 10.1038/ng.919.

Genome Database(s):

Brassica Genomes Portal