Taxon: Brassica tournefortii Gouan

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

NV*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• African mustard   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• Asian mustard   (Source: Biol Breed Crucif) – English
  
• long-fruit turnip   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Mediterranean mustard   (Source: F NZeal ) – English
  
• Mediterranean turnip   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  
• pale cabbage   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Saharan mustard   (Source: Biol Breed Crucif) – English
  
• wild turnip   (Source: Misc Publ USDA 643) – English
  
• qarras   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• shiltam   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: cytoplasmic male sterility for rape   (fide Physiol Pl (Copenhagen) 96:123. 1996)
  
• Gene sources: potential for gene transfer in rape   (fide Genet Res Crop Evol 53:298. 2006)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of kale   (based on low hybrid production in crosess with Brassica oleracea fide Euphytica 158:213. 2007)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of Abyssinian cabbage   (based on hybrids with Brassica carinata by embryo culture fide Cruc Newsl 16:32. 1994)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of black mustard   (fide Euphytica 158:217. 2007, based on hybrid production in crosses with B. nigra)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of mustard   (based on records of ovary derived hybrids with Brassica juncea fide Warwick et al. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of radish   (fide Theor Appl Genet 101:990. 2000, based on hybrid production in crosses with Raphanus sativus var. mougri (as caudatus))
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of rape   (fide Euphytica 158:217. 2007, based on hybrid production in crosses with B. napus)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of turnip   (fide Euphytica 158:213, 216. 2007, based on hybrid production in crosses with B. rapa)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain; Kuwait; Oman; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan
  Middle Asia: Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: Spain [e. & s.]

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Brassica tournefortii.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Brassica tournefortii.

Check other web resources for Brassica tournefortii Gouan:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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