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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