Taxon: Brassica oleracea L. var. alboglabra (L. H. Bailey) Musil

See other conspecific taxa:

• Brassica oleracea (82 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. botrytis (469 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. capitata (973 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. costata (12 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera (75 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes (30 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. italica (52 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. medullosa (8 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. oleracea (2 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. palmifolia (1 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. ramosa (2 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. sabauda (25 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. sabellica (2 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. viridis (168 accessions)

Common names:

• Chinese broccoli   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• Chinese kale   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• bai hua gan lan   (Source: F ChinaEng [as B. oleracea var. albiflora]) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• chinesischer Brokkoli   (Source: Dict Rehm [as B. alboglabra]) – German
  
• chinesischer Kohl   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• kailan   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – Indonesian
  
• kailan   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – Malay
  
• gaillon   (Source: Genet Mol Biol) – Portuguese
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (in China and SE Asia fide Herklots 1972 & Mansfeld, as B. alboglabra)
  
• Gene sources: research in plant biology   (fide Theor Appl Genet 100:75. 2000, based on the use of this variety to produce a high density consensus linkage map of the C-genome)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan
• also cultivated elsewhere

• probable origin e. Asia

References:

• Allender, C. J. et al. 2007. Simple sequence repeats reveal uneven distribution of genetic diversity in chloroplast genomes of Brassica oleracea L. and (n=9) wild relatives. Theor. Appl. Genet. 114:609–618.
• Anderson, J. K. & S. I. Warwick. 1999. Chromosome number evolution in the tribe Brassiceae (Brassicaceae): evidence from isozyme number. Pl. Syst. Evol. 215:255–285.
• Arias, T. & J. C. Pires. 2012. A fully resolved chloroplast phylogeny of the brassica crops and wild relatives (Brassicaceae: Brassiceae): Novel clades and potential taxonomic implications. Taxon 61:980–988.
• Bohuon, E. J. R. et al. 1996. Alignment of the conserved C genomes of Brassica oleracea and Brassica napus. Theor. Appl. Genet. 93:833–839.
• Chen, H. G. & J. S. Wu. 2008. Characterization of fertile amphidiploid between Raphanus sativus and Brassica alboglabra and the crossability with Brassica species. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 55:143–150.
• Chrungu, B. et al. 1999. Production and characterization of interspecific hybrids between Brassica maurorum and crop brassicas. Theor. Appl. Genet. 98:608–613.
• Dias, J. S. 1995. Genetic relationships of Portuguese coles and other close related Brassica genotypes using nuclear RFLPs. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 42:363–369.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Gladis, T. & K. Hammer. 2001. Nomenclatural notes on the Brassica oleracea-group. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 48:7–11. [recognized this taxon as a member of "convar." botrytis (L.) Alef.].
• Hansen, L. N. & E. D. Earle. 1995. Transfer of resistance to Xanthomonas campestris pv campestris into Brassica oleracea L. by protoplast fusion. Theor. Appl. Genet. 91:1293–1300.
• Harberd, D. J. 1972. A contribution to the cyto-taxonomy of Brassica (Cruciferae) and its allies. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 65:4. [= B. alboglabra L. H. Bailey].
• He, C.-K. 1994. On the taxonomy of kale. In: Dong, G. & L. Y. Meng, eds., Advances in horticulture. Beijing, China 155–159. [Chinese kale is B. oleracea var. chinensis].
• Herklots, G. A. C. 1972. Vegetables in Southeast Asia. 193.
• Inomata, N. 2002. A cytogenetic study of the progenies of hybrids between Brassica napus and Brassica oleracea, Brassica bourgeaui, Brassica cretica and Brassica montana. Pl. Breed. (New York) 121:174–176.
• Kianian, S. F. & C. F. Quiros. 1992. Trait inheritance, fertility, and genomic relationships of some n=9 Brassica species. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 39:165–175. [as B. alboglabra].
• Lázaro, A. & I. Aguinagalde. 1998. Genetic diversity in Brassica oleracea L. (Cruciferae) and wild relatives (2n=18) using RAPD markers. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 82:829–833.
• Lázaro, A. & I. Aguinagalde. 1998. Genetic diversity in Brassica oleracea L. (Cruciferae) and wild relatives (2n=18) using isozymes. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 82:821–828.
• Lan, T.-H. & A. H. Paterson. 2000. Comparative mapping of quantitative trait loci sculpting the curd of Brassica oleracea. Genetics 155:1927–1954.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= B. oleracea Alboglabra Group].
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2. [= B. alboglabra L. H. Bailey].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Mei, J. et al. 2010. Genomic relationships between wild and cultivated Brassica oleracea L. with emphasis on the origination of cultivated crops. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 57:1–15.
• Nieuwhof, M. 1969. Cole crops. 14. [= B. alboglabra L. H. Bailey].
• Panda, S. et al. 2003. Chloroplast and nuclear DNA studies in a few members of the Brassica oleracea L. group using PCR-RFLP and ISSR-PCR markers: a population genetic analysis. Theor. Appl. Genet. 106:1122–1128.
• Phelan, J. R. & J. G. Vaughan. 1976. A chemotaxonomic study of Brassica oleracea with particular reference to its relationship to Brassica alboglabra. Biochem. Syst. & Ecol. 4:173–178.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Pradhan, A. K. et al. 1992. Phylogeny of Brassica and allied genera based on variation in chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA patterns: molecular and taxonomic classifications are incongruous. Theor. Appl. Genet. 85:331–340.
• Prakash, S. & K. Hinata. 1980. Taxonomy, cytogenetics and origin of crop brassicas, a review. Opera Bot. 55:10. [= B. alboglabra L. H. Bailey].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sebastian, R. L. et al. 2000. An integrated AFLP and RFLP Brassica oleracea linkage map from two morphologically distinct doubled-haploid mapping populations. Theor. Appl. Genet. 100:75–81.
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 8:115–117. [= B. oleracea Chinese Kale Group].
• Smith, L. B. & G. J. King. 2000. The distribution of Bo-CAL-a alleles in Brassica oleracea is consistent with a genetic model for curd development and domestication of the cauliflower. Molec. Breed. 6:603–613.
• Snogerup, S. & D. Persson. 1983. Hybridization between Brassica insularis Moris and B. balearica Pers. Hereditas (Beijing) 99:187–190.
• Snogerup, S. 1980. Chapter 7. The wild forms of the Brassica oleracea group (2n=18) and their possible relations to the cultivated ones. In: Tsunoda, S. et al., Brassica crop and wild allies, biology and breeding. 121–132.
• 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.
• Song, K. et al. 1988. Brassica taxonomy based on nuclear restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). 2. Preliminary analysis of subspecies within B. rapa (syn. campestris) and B. oleracea. Theor. Appl. Genet. 76:593–600.
• Song, K. et al. 1990. Brassica taxonomy based on nuclear restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). 3. Genome relationships in Brassica and related genera and the origin of B. oleracea and B. rapa (syn. campestris). Theor. Appl. Genet. 79:497–506.
• Spini, V. B. M. G. & W. E. Kerr. 2000. Genetic analysis of a cross of gaillon (Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra) with cauliflower (B. oleracea var. botrytis). Genet. Molec. Biol. 23:221–222.
• Tanaka, N. et al. 2009. Inheritance of cabbage head formation in crosses of cabbage × ornamental cabbage and cabbage × kale. Pl. Breed. (New York) 128:471–477. [mentions "B. alboglabra" as a probable progenitor of B. oleracea var. capitata].
• Warwick, S. I. & L. D. Black. 1991. Molecular systematics of Brassica and allied genera (Subtribe Brassicinae, Brassiceae) - chloroplast genome and cytodeme congruence. Theor. Appl. Genet. 82:81–92.
• 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). [= B. oleracea var. albiflora Kuntze].

Synonyms:

• (≡) Brassica alboglabra L. H. Bailey (basionym)
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (=) Brassica oleracea var. albiflora auct.
  

Check other web resources for Brassica oleracea L. var. alboglabra (L. H. Bailey) Musil:

• 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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