Taxon: Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. juncea

See other conspecific taxa:

• Brassica juncea (481 accessions)
• Brassica juncea subsp. integrifolia (no accessions)
• Brassica juncea subsp. integrifolia var. crispifolia (no accessions)
• Brassica juncea subsp. integrifolia var. integrifolia (no accessions)
• Brassica juncea subsp. integrifolia var. japonica (no accessions)
• Brassica juncea subsp. integrifolia var. longidens (1 accessions)
• Brassica juncea subsp. integrifolia var. rugosa (8 accessions)
• Brassica juncea subsp. integrifolia var. strumata (2 accessions)
• Brassica juncea subsp. integrifolia var. subintegrifolia (no accessions)
• Brassica juncea subsp. napiformis (7 accessions)
• Brassica juncea subsp. tsatsai var. multiceps (15 accessions)
• Brassica juncea subsp. tsatsai var. tumida (no accessions)

Common names:

• brown mustard   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• canola   (Source: P. O'Sullivan, p.c.) – English
  
• Indian mustard   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• oilseed mustard   (Source: Genet Res Crop Evol ) – English
  
• jie cai   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• moutarde brune   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• brauner Senf   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Sareptasenf   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• rai   (Source: Wealth India RM ) – India
  
• raya   (Source: Wealth India RM ) – India
  
• karashi   (Source: Kitamura 1950) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• mostarda-vermelha   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• mostaza de Sarepta   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• mostaza india   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Cover Crop Database)
  
• Human food: oil/fat   (fide Gent Herb 2:261. 1930; Wealth India RM)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Genet Res Crop Evol 53:1515. 2006)
  
• Fuels: potential as petroleum substitute/alcohol   (fide web document)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (for making mustard plasters fide F USSR)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia [s.], Western Siberia [s.]
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  North America
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  South America

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan
• also cultivated elsewhere in temperate regions

References:

• Bailey, L. H. 1930. The cultivated Brassicas; second paper. Gentes Herb. 2:258.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948–1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• 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.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• International Energy Agency. 2004. Biofuels for transport: an international perspective. (on-line resource). 1–216.
• Kitamura, S. 1950. The cultivated brassicae of China and Japan. Mem. Coll. Sci. Kyoto Imp. Univ., Ser. B, Biol. 19:76.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• O'Sullivan, P. 1999. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• 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. 745:784–794.
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Warwick, S. I. et al. 2006. Brassicaceae: Species checklist and database on CD-Rom. Pl. Syst. Evol. 259:249–258. [lists in database].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

Synonyms:

• (=) Brassica cernua (Thunb.) F. B. Forbes & Hemsl.
  
• (=) Brassica juncea var. gracilis M. Tsen & S. H. Lee
  
• (=) Brassica juncea var. multisecta L. H. Bailey
  
• (=) Brassica juncea var. oleifera Prain
  
• (=) Sinapis cernua Thunb.
  
• (≡) Sinapis juncea L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. juncea:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Check other databases for 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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