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Brassica rapa
Brassica rapa (field mustard, turnip, bok choy, napa cabbage, turnip rape) is a diploid Brassicaceae crop species (2n=20, A genome), domesticated in Central Asia 3,430–5,930 years ago, parent of B. napus, with a published 41,174-gene genome.
Brassicaceae
Brassicaceae (Cruciferae), the mustard or cabbage family of order Brassicales: ~4,000 species with cruciform flowers, tetradynamous stamens, siliques, glucosinolate defense, and crops like Brassica, plus Arabidopsis thaliana.
Brassinolide
Brassinolide is a steroidal plant hormone and the most biologically active brassinosteroid, first isolated from rape pollen in 1979 to promote growth and stress tolerance.
Brassinosteroid
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are polyhydroxylated steroid hormones found throughout the plant kingdom, recognized as the sixth major class of plant hormones after auxin, gibberellins, cytokinins, abscisic acid, and ethylene.
Brasso
Brasso is a liquid metal polish sold by Reckitt, launched in 1905 as the first liquid metal polish made in Britain, and is used to clean brass, copper, chrome, and stainless steel.
Brasvellbreen
Bråsvellbreen (Brasvellbreen), southernmost outlet of the Austfonna ice cap on Nordaustlandet, Svalbard; a surge-type tidewater glacier, about 45 km long, that advanced roughly 20 km in the 1930s in Svalbard's largest recorded surge and is now retreating.
Brat (2025 film)
Brat (2025) is an Indian Kannada-language action thriller directed by Shashank, starring Darling Krishna as Kristy, whose cricket betting clashes with his honest constable father; distinct from the Polish film Brat by Sobieszczański.
Brat (album)
Brat (brat) is the sixth studio album by British pop artist Charli XCX, released June 7, 2024 on Atlantic Records; its lime-green cover sparked "brat summer", Collins' 2024 word of the year, and three Grammy wins.
Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat
Brat and it's completely different but also still brat is Charli XCX's October 11, 2024 Atlantic remix album of Brat, with new vocals on every track and guests including Lorde, Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, and Robyn; it pushed Brat to UK Number 1.
Brat Pack
The Brat Pack is the label David Blum coined in a June 1985 New York magazine cover story for young 1980s film stars such as Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, and Andrew McCarthy, anchored by The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire; the actors rejected the name, later examined in McCarthy's 2024 Hulu documentary Brats.
Brat Summer
Brat summer: 2024 cultural phenomenon from Charli XCX's album brat (June 7, 2024), its lime-green Pantone 3570-C cover, viral TikTok spread, Kamala Harris 'kamala IS brat' moment, and remix album.
Brat Tour
Brat Tour: Charli xcx's 2024-2025 concert tour for her album Brat, with UK and US arena legs, minimalist industrial staging by Jonny Kingsbury, and festival dates including Glastonbury 2025.
Brata katha
Brata katha (ব্রতকথা) is a genre of Bengali folklore consisting of stories recited by women as part of a brata, a domestic vow-ritual performed in Bengal and neighboring regions.
Bratananium
Bratananium (Bratananio on the Tabula Peutingeriana) was a Roman vicus and mansio road station at Gauting, Upper Bavaria, at the junction of roads from Kempten and Augsburg toward Salzburg, settled from about 15 BC.
Brategg Bank
Brategg Bank is a submarine bank with least depth of 99 m northwest of the Biscoe Islands, Graham Coast, Antarctica; charted 1947-48 by the Norwegian whaling expedition ship Brategg (Kapt. N. Larsen) and named for that vessel.
Bratina
Bratina (братина): a Russian communal drinking vessel first mentioned in the 16th century; also an open-air Cossack culture museum and festival in Krivosheino, Tomsk Oblast, and a media creativity festival in Sergiev Posad.
Bratislav Gašić
Bratislav Gašić (born 1967) is a Serbian politician of the Serbian Progressive Party who has served as Minister of Defence since 2024, after leading the Security and Intelligence Agency from 2017 to 2022.
Bratislav Mišić
Bratislav Mišić is a network neuroscientist and Associate Professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute who leads the Network Neuroscience Lab, studying how brain dynamics emerge from connections among brain areas.
Bratislava
Bratislava (Pressburg, Pozsony, Prešporok) is the capital of Slovakia on the Danube, renamed in 1919, Hungarian coronation city 1536–1830, Slovak capital since 1993, generating 28% of national GDP.
Bratislava–Brno offensive
Bratislava–Brno offensive (Bratislavsko-brněnská operace): Red Army 2nd Ukrainian Front operation, 25 March–5 May 1945, liberating Bratislava on 4 April and Brno on 26 April 1945.
BRATR trial
BRATR (NCT04193007) is a randomized phase II trial from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University testing brain radiotherapy plus targeted therapy versus targeted therapy alone in asymptomatic NSCLC brain metastases with gene sensitive mutations; planned 100 patients, status unknown, no results posted.
Brats (2024 film)
Brats (2024) is a 92-minute documentary directed and written by Andrew McCarthy, premiering at Tribeca and streaming on Hulu from June 13, 2024, in which Brat Pack members including Estevez, Moore, Lowe, and Sheedy reflect on the label David Blum coined in 1985.
Bratsk
Bratsk (Братск) is a city of about 219,000 people in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, on the Angara River in Eastern Siberia, formed in 1955 around the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station.
Bratsk hydroelectric plant
The Bratsk hydroelectric plant (Братская ГЭС) is a 4,500 MW hydroelectric plant on the Angara River at Bratsk in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, the world's largest until 1971.
Brattahlíð
Brattahlíð (Brattahlid) was Erik the Red's farmstead in Greenland's Eastern Settlement, founded AD 982 at present-day Qassiarsuk on the Tunulliarfik fjord, now part of the UNESCO Kujataa World Heritage area with Norse ruins and reconstructions.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Brattleboro, Vermont: a Windham County town of about 12,000 on the Connecticut River, chartered 1753 and named for William Brattle; southeastern Vermont's economic and arts hub.
Bratton Castle
Bratton Castle (Bratton Camp) is a bivallate Iron Age hillfort of 9.3 hectares on Bratton Down, Wiltshire, enclosing a Neolithic long barrow, beside the Westbury White Horse and linked by tradition to Alfred's 878 victory at Ethandun.
Bratwurst
Bratwurst (German: Bratwurst) is a fresh German sausage of ground pork and veal with marjoram, grilled or fried. Nearly 50 regional varieties; earliest German record 1404 in Arnstadt; Nürnberger type is EU-protected.
Bratz
Bratz is a line of fashion dolls produced by MGA Entertainment since 2001, whose original characters Yasmin, Cloe, Sasha, and Jade briefly outsold Barbie in the mid-2000s.
Bratz (film)
Bratz is a 2007 American live-action comedy film based on MGA Entertainment's Bratz fashion dolls. It follows four teenage friends whose bond is tested in high school.