Taxon: Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. tsatsai (T. L. Mao) Gladis, nom. nud.? var. multiceps M. Tsen & S. H. Lee

 
Genus: Brassica
Family: Brassicaceae (alt.Cruciferae)
      Tribe: Brassiceae
Nomen number: 319683
Place of publication: Hortus Sinicus 2:20. 1942
Comment: [or B. juncea Multishoot Mustard Group]
Name Verified on: 31-Jan-1994 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 04-Jun-2010
Species priority site is:
Accessions: 0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

  • chicken mustard  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
  • multishoot mustard  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
  • nine-head mustard   - English

Economic Importance:

  • Human food: vegetable (preserved in salt fide Herklots, Vegetables in SE Asia. 1972)

Distributional Range:

    Cultivated:

  • Asia-Temperate

    • China: China

References:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959- (F China)
  • Fu, J. et al. 2006. Genetic diversity of traditional Chinese mustard crops Brassica juncea as revealed by phenotypic differences and RAPD markers Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 53:1513-1519.
  • Gladis, T. & K. Hammer 1992. Die Gaterslebener Brassica-Kollektion - Brassica juncea, B. napus, B. nigra und B. rapa Feddes Repert. 103:476.
  • Herklots, G. A. C. 1972. Vegetables in South-East Asia 220.
  • Lee, S.-H. 1982. Vegetable crops growing in China Sci. Hort. 17:206.
  • Mansfeld, R. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2. 1959 (Mansfeld)
  • McFerson, J. 1994. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). (Pl Names)
  • Qi, X.-H. et al. 2007. Molecular phylogeny of Chinese vegetable mustard (Brassica juncea) based on the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 54:1709-1716.
  • Song, K. et al. 1988. Brassica taxonomy based on nuclear restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). 1. Genome evolution of diploid and amphidiploid species Theor. Appl. Genet. 75:784-794.
  • Warwick, S. I. et al. 2006. Brassicaceae: Species checklist and database on CD-Rom Pl. Syst. Evol. 259:249-258.
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

Check other web resources for Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. tsatsai (T. L. Mao) Gladis, nom. nud.? var. multiceps M. Tsen & S. H. Lee :

  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.