Taxon: Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. subsp. juncea (Brassica juncea Raya and Mustard Groups)

Summary

Genus:

Brassica

Family:

Brassicaceae (alt. Cruciferae)

Tribe:

Brassiceae

Nomen number:

400711

Comment:

[or Brassica juncea Raya and Mustard Groups]

Verified:

04/10/2010 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Sinapis juncea L.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Sinapis juncea L. var. juncea

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Brassica cernua (Thunb.) F. B. Forbes & Hemsl.
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. var. gracilis M. Tsen & S. H. Lee
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. var. multisecta L. H. Bailey
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. var. oleifera Prain
Sinapis cernua Thunb.

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Conservation Status

Reference(s)

APHIS. Agricultural Risk Management System United States Department of Agriculture.
Bailey, L. H. 1930. The cultivated Brassicas; second paper. Gentes Herbarum 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.
Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
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.
Hammer, K. et al. 2013. The wild and the grown - Remarks about the botanical classification of Brassica. Acta Hort. 1005:49-59.
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. In: , Website.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. In: , pers. comm. Note: 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. Note: lists in database
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).

Common names

LANGUAGE	NAME	ALTERNATE NAME	SEQ	CITATION
English	brown mustard		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	canola		1	O'Sullivan, P. 1999. In: , pers. comm. Note: re. common names
English	Indian mustard		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	oilseed mustard		1	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.
Chinese	jie cai	芥菜	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
French	moutarde brune		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	brauner Senf		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Sareptasenf		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
India	rai		2	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948-1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials.
India	raya		2	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948-1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials.
Japanese Rōmaji	karashi		2	Kitamura, S. 1950. The cultivated brassicae of China and Japan. Mem. Coll. Sci. Kyoto Imp. Univ., Ser. B, Biol. 19:76.
Portuguese	mostarda-vermelha		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	mostaza de Sarepta		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	mostaza india		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Transcribed Chinese	jie cai		2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State	Note
2	Cultivated					also cult. elsewhere in temperate regions
2	Cultivated	Asia-Temperate	China	China
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indian Subcontinent	India
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indian Subcontinent	Pakistan
4	Naturalized	Africa		Africa
4	Naturalized	Asia-Temperate	Caucasus	Azerbaijan
4	Naturalized	Asia-Temperate	Caucasus	Georgia
4	Naturalized	Asia-Temperate	Siberia	Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia	Eastern Siberia	s.
4	Naturalized	Asia-Temperate	Siberia	Russian Federation-Western Siberia	Western Siberia	s.
4	Naturalized	Europe	Eastern Europe	Russian Federation-European part	European part
4	Naturalized	Northern America		North America
4	Naturalized	Southern America		South America
5	Uncertain	Asia-Temperate	Middle Asia	Kazakhstan
5	Uncertain	Asia-Temperate	Middle Asia	Kyrgyzstan
5	Uncertain	Asia-Temperate	Middle Asia	Tajikistan
5	Uncertain	Asia-Temperate	Middle Asia	Turkmenistan
5	Uncertain	Asia-Temperate	Mongolia	Mongolia

Cultivated

REGION:

Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Pakistan

Naturalized
Africa

REGION: Africa

Asia-Temperate

CAUCASUS: Azerbaijan, Georgia
SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia (s.)], Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia [Eastern Siberia (s.)]

Europe

EASTERN EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part]

Northern America

REGION: North America

Southern America

REGION: South America

Uncertain
Asia-Temperate

MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
MONGOLIA: Mongolia

Economic Uses

Usage	Type	Note	Reference
Environmental	soil improver		University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
Food additives	flavoring		Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Fuels	petroleum substitute/alcohol	potential	International Energy Agency. 2004. Biofuels for transport: an international perspective. In: , Website.1-216.
Fuels	potential as petroleum substitute/alcohol	fide http://www.iea.org/textbase/nppdf/free/2004/biofuels2004.pdf,	International Energy Agency. 2004. Biofuels for transport: an international perspective. In: , Website.1-216.
Human food	oil/fat		Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948-1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials.
Human food	oil/fat	fide Gent Herb 2:261. 1930	Bailey, L. H. 1930. The cultivated Brassicas; second paper. Gentes Herbarum 2:258.
Human food	vegetable		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.
Medicines	folklore	for making mustard plasters fide F USSR	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grin-global.warwick.ac.uk/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=400711. Accessed 30 October 2024.