Taxon: Sinapis alba L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Sinapis alba subsp. alba (8 accessions)
• Sinapis alba subsp. dissecta (no accessions)
• Sinapis alba subsp. mairei (2 accessions)

Common names:

• white mustard   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• white mustard   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Sinapis alba subsp. alba]
  
• bai jie   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Sinapis alba subsp. alba]
  
• moutarde blanche   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Sinapis alba subsp. alba]
  
• weißer Senf   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Sinapis alba subsp. alba]
  
• weißer Senf   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• senape bianca   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian   [Sinapis alba subsp. alba]
  
• mostarda-branca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Sinapis alba subsp. alba]
  
• mostaza blanca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Sinapis alba subsp. alba]
  
• vitsenap   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish   [Sinapis alba subsp. alba]
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: potential for disease resistance in kale   (fide Theor Appl Genet 94:1078. 1997)
  
• Gene sources: potential for pest resistance in kale   (fide Theor Appl Genet 94:1078. 1997)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of Abyssinian cabbage   (based on records of hybrids with Brassica carinata fide Warwick et al. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of black mustard   (fide Euphytica 158:213. 2007, reporting a successful cross when B. nigra was the male parent)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of kale   (fide Theor Appl Genet 94:1078. 1997)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of mustard   (fide Theor Appl Genet 94:1078. 1997, citing previous studies of crosses with Brassica juncea by sexual crosses)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of radish   (based on a record of hybrid formation with Raphanus sativus fide Guide Germ Brassica)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of rape   (fide Theor Appl Genet 94:1078. 1997, citing previous studies of crosses with Brassica napus using embryo rescue and protoplast fusion)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of turnip   (based on one record of hybrid formation with Brassica rapa fide Guide Germ Brassica)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Germany; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal [e.?]; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• widely naturalized

References:

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Synonyms:

• Brassica alba (L.) Rabenh. [≡ Sinapis alba subsp. alba]
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)
• Brassica hirta Moench [= Sinapis alba subsp. alba]
  (previously associated with 18 accessions)
• Sinapis alba var. melanosperma Alef. [= Sinapis alba subsp. alba]
  
• Sinapis dissecta Lag. [≡ Sinapis alba subsp. dissecta]
  

Check other web resources for Sinapis alba L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images 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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