@article{
author = "Marjanović-Jeromela, Ana and Mikić, Aleksandar",
year = "2018",
abstract = "The most significant contemporary cultivated species in the family Brassicaceae Burnett (syn. Cruciferae Juss.) is Brassica napus L., which is grown on 33,708,547 ha on a global scale, followed far behind by B.oleracea L. subtaxa and cultivar groups and mustards (Brassica spp. and Sinapis spp.), all together with slightly above 4,5 million ha, in 2016 (FAOSTAT 2017). Its primary centre of diversity is the Mediterranean (Zeven & Zhukovsky 1975), having widespread across the world and becoming most extensively produced in with Canada and China, with almost 18.5 t and more than 15 t, respectively (Chai et al. 2017, Phillips 2018). Resulting from the fusion of the whole genomes of B. oleracea (2n = 9) and B. rapa (2n = 10), B. napus is considered an amphidiploid (Li et al. 2017).
A considerable variability of morphological and quality traits may have caused a number of synonyms in various taxonomic classifications, such as B. gongylodes Mill., B. napobrassica Mill., B. oleifera Moench nom. illeg., B. praecox Kit. ex Hornem., B. praecox Waldst. & Kit. ex DC., B. rutabaga DC. ex H.Lév., B. rutabaga (DC.) Druce, B. stricta Nestl. ex DC. or C. napus E. H. L. Krause (The Plant List 2013). The Linnean species name, nāpus (Linnaeus 1753, Linnaeus 1758), is a Latin noun, which is derived from the Ancient Greek nâpu, denoting mustards. The synonym of the latter is sínapi, being, in its own turn, a borrowing of the Demotic snwpt, both referring to the same crops (Erichen 1954, Wiktionary 2018). Since the historical linguistic database of both Egyptian and Proto-Afroasiatic, its direct ancestor that was spoken at most 18,000 years ago, is rather abundant, there are many potential candidates for the ultimate origin of the modern scientific sinapis. One pair is the Egyptian sm.w, designating a cruciferous vegetable, and the Proto-Afroasiatic *sayam, denoting grass, while another is the Egyptian sn.w, associated with a kind of ritual food, and the Proto-Afroasiatic *sVny/’-, referring to seed and corn (Militarev 2005, Militarev & Stolbova 2007).
This overview is aimed at presenting the subspecies, varieties, forms, cultivar groups and common names relating to B. napus (Porcher 2008, The Plant List 2013, Wiersema & León 2016, Erić et al. 2017, Kew Science 2017, Logos 2018, NPGS 2018, Wikipedia 2018, Wiktionary 2018).",
publisher = "Le Rheu : Institute for Genetics, Environment and Plant Protection",
journal = "Cruciferae Newsletter",
title = "Few Lines From Le Robert Crucifère: Botanical, Agronomic And Common Names Relating To Brassica Napus",
pages = "26-18",
volume = "36",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_fiver_3269"
}