Taxon: Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata L.

See other conspecific taxa:

• Brassica oleracea (82 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra (7 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. botrytis (469 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. costata (12 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera (75 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes (30 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. italica (69 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:

• cabbage   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• red cabbage   (Source: J. McFerson, p.c.) – English
  
• Shetland cabbage   (Source: Euphytica 133:280.) – English
  
• white cabbage   (Source: McFerson, p.c.) – English
  
• gan lan   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• hovedkaal   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Danish
  
• chou cabus   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• chou pommé   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• chou rouge   (Source: UPOV ) – French
  
• Blaukraut   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Rotkohl   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Weißkohl   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• cavolo cappuccio   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• cavolo cappuccio bianco   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• cavolo cappuccio rosso   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• cavolo cappucio conico   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• kyabetsu   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• couve-repolho   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Portuguese
  
• repolho   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• kočanaja kapusta   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• col   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  
• col repollo   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Spanish
  
• lombarda   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• repollo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide Hortus 3; Mansfeld)
  
• Gene sources: potential as delivery system   (fide Theor Appl Genet 117:75-88. 2008, for expressing vaccines and pharmaceuticals in an edible form)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (to livestock fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Everist)
  

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View toxicology references for Brassica oleracea var. capitata from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• only cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Bailey, L. H. 1949. Manual of cultivated plants, revised ed.
• Bothmer, R. von et al. 1995. Brassica sect. Brassica (Brassicaceae). II. Inter- and intraspecific crosses with cultivars of B. oleracea. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 42:165–178.
• Coelho, P. S. & A. A. Monteiro. 2003. Expression of resistance to downy mildew at cotyledon and adult plant stages in Brassica oleracea L. Euphytica 133:279–284.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• 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.
• Divaret, I. et al. 1999. RAPD markers on seed bulks efficiently assess the genetic diversity of a Brassica oleracea L. collection. Theor. Appl. Genet. 98:1029–1035.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Ellis, P. R. et al. 1999. Identification of high levels of resistance to cabbage root fly, Delia radicum, in wild Brassica species. Euphytica 110:207–214.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Everest, S. L. 1981. Poisonous plants of Australia. [poisonous].
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Hegi, G. et al. 1986. Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa. ed. 1:1906-1931; ed. 2:1936-68; ed. 3:1966- [= cultivariety].
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae. [= B. oleracea subsp. capitata (L.) Schübl. & Martens].
• Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu).
• Kalia, P. 2009. Chapter 16. Genetic improvement in vegetable crucifers. Pp. 310–342 in: Gupta, S. K., Biology and breeding of Crucifers.
• 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.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Kresovich, S. et al. 1992. Characterization of genetic identities and relationships of Brassica oleracea L. via a random amplified polymorphic DNA assay. Theor. Appl. Genet. 85:190–196.
• 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.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liu, C.-W. et al. 2008. Expression of a Bacillus thuringiensis toxin (cry1Ab) gene in cabbage (Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata L.) chloroplasts confers high insecticidal efficacy against Plutella xylostella. Theor. Appl. Genet. 117:75–88.
• Louarn, S. et al. 2007. Database derived microsatellite markers (SSRs) for cultivar differentiation in Brassica oleracea. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 54:1717–1725.
• Lowman, A. C. & M. D. Purugganan. 1999. Duplication of the Brassica oleracea APETALA1 floral homeotic gene and the evolution of domesticated cauliflower. J. Heredity 90:514–520.
• 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].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, 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.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:85.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Nieuwhof, M. 1969. Cole crops. 15.
• Office of the Union. 2009. UPOV: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. List of the taxa protected by the members of the Union.
• Oost, E. H. et al. 1989. Typification of Brassica oleracea L. (Cruciferae) and its Linnaean varieties. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 101:333. [selects neotype].
• 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. 85:331–349.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• 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. 1980. Chapter 7. The wild forms of the Brassica oleracea group (2n=18) and their possible relations to the cultivated ones. Pp. 121–132 in: Tsunoda, S. et al., Brassica crop and wild allies, biology and breeding.
• 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.
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
• Tanaka, N. & S. Niikura. 2006. Genetic analysis of the developmental characteristics related to the earliness of head formation in cabbage (Brassica oleracea). Breed. Sci. 56:147–153.
• 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.
• Tonguç, M. & P. D. Griffiths. 2004. Genetic relationships of Brassica vegetables determined usind database derived simple sequence repeats. Euphytica 137:193–201.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Wang, X. et al. 2000. An extended random primer amplified region (ERPAR) marker linked to a dominant male sterility gene in cabbage. Euphytica 112:267–273. [used plants derived from crosses between male sterile lines of B. oleracea var. capitata and a var. italica line to test a technique derived from RAPD].
• 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 oleracea f. alba DC.
  
• (≡) Brassica oleracea subsp. capitata (L.) Schübl. & G. Martens
  
• (=) Brassica oleracea var. conica DC.
  
• (=) Brassica oleracea var. rubra L.
  

Check other web resources for Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata L.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource

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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• 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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