Brassica is a genus of plants in the cabbage and mustard family (Brassicaceae). The members of the genus are informally known as cruciferous vegetables, cabbages, mustard plants, or simply brassicas. Crops from this genus are sometimes called cole crops—derived from the Latin caulis, denoting the stem or stalk of a plant.
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Brassica napus
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Brassica oleracea
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Brassica juncea
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Brassica rapa
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Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis
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The premium camellia oil you might buy for cooking or skincare is a common target for cheap oil substitution, and this new...
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Rapeseed fields planted after the rice harvest in southern China — and eventually in colder northern regions — could stay...
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Canola oil in your kitchen comes from a crop routinely devastated by white mold fungus, which can wipe out entire fields —...
White mold rots the stems of canola, sunflowers, beans, and lettuce in home and market gardens alike, and this edit shows...
Copper from old mine dumps can leach into the soil of nearby farms and gardens, and the 'natural' acids used to clean it up...
As soil salinization expands due to irrigation and climate change, understanding how oilseed crops like canola and mustard...
Higher-oil canola means more vegetable oil produced per acre, which could help keep cooking oil affordable and reduce the land...
If your vegetables were grown in a field that previously used plastic mulch, the residual plastic could be affecting how much...
It means future crops could be bred to feed themselves more efficiently from the soil, potentially shrinking the enormous...
Vegetables you eat may be grown in soils where nearby mining has quietly changed the underground microbial ecosystem that...
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