Brassica rapa comprises several important cultivated vegetables and oil crops. In particular,
Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L. ssp. pekinensis; 2n = 20) is an inexpensive
and nutritious vegetable that is consumed worldwide, especially in east Asia.
The Chinese cabbage have broad green leaves with white petioles, tightly wrapped in
a cylindrical formation and usually forming a compact head.
The leafy parts of Chinese cabbage have diverse colors and sizes and come in various shapes.
The leaves contain the main horticulture purpose as edible parts with high-nutrition.
Because of economic value or this crop in the market, a tremendous number of world-wide
researches were conducted for dissecting factors governing diverse traits of B. rapa such as
flowering time, leaf morphological factors, and disease resistance. As a result, the genetic
information related to traits such as QTL, candidate genes and molecular marker is continuously
released to research and breeding community.
Publications:
The Brassica rapa Genome Sequencing Project Consortium.
(2011) The genome of the mesopolyploid crop species Brassica rapa. Nature genetics 43, 1035-1039
Cai et al. (2017) Brassica rapa Genome 2.0: A Reference Upgrade through Sequence Re-assembly and
Gene Re-annotation. Molecular plant 10(4), Pages 649-651
Zhang et al. (2018) Improved Brassica rapa reference genome by single-molecule sequencing and
chromosome conformation capture technologies. Horticulture research, 5(1), 50.
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