Taxon: Brassica ruvo L. H. Bailey

• or B. rapa Broccoletto Group
• better placed under B. rapa, but no name exists there

Common names:

• broccoli raab   (Source: Hortus 3 [as B. rapa Ruvo Group]) – English
  
• Italian turnip   (Source: Pl Genet Res Char Ut ) – English
  
• Italian turnip broccoli   (Source: Dict Econ Pl ) – English
  
• nabana   (Source: McFerson, p.c.) – English
  
• raab   (Source: J Agric Food Chem ) – English
  
• ruvo kale   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• saishin   (Source: McFerson, p.c.) – English
  
• broccoletto   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• cime di rapa   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide Dict Econ Pl)
  

Distributional range:

• EUROPE
  Europe
• lesser cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Bailey, L. H. 1949. Manual of cultivated plants, revised ed.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. [= B. rapa subsp. oleifera (DC.) Metzg.].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= B. rapa (Ruvo Group)].
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McFerson, J. 1994. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Warwick, S. I. et al. 2008. AFLP-based molecular characterization of Brassica rapa and diversity in Canadian spring turnip rape cultivars. Pl. Genet. Resources Charact. Util. 6:11–21.
• West, L. G. et al. 2004. Glucoraphanin and 4-Hydroxyglucobrassicin contents in seeds of 59 cultivars of broccoli, raab, kolhrabi, radish, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale, and cabbage. J. Agric. Food Chem. 52:916–926.
• Zhao, J. et al. 2005. Genetic relationships within Brassica rapa as inferred from AFLP fingerprints. Theor. Appl. Genet. 110:1301–1314.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Brassica ruvo.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Brassica ruvo.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Brassica ruvo.

Check other web resources for Brassica ruvo L. H. Bailey:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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