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Alliaria petiolata
Alliaria petiolata, known as garlic mustard, is a biennial mustard herb native to Europe that has become invasive in North American forests since the 1860s.
Alyssum
Alyssum (madwort) is a Brassicaceae genus of about 112 accepted species native from the Canary Islands and North Africa to temperate Eurasia; its Odontarrhena section contains many nickel hyperaccumulators, and sweet alyssum belongs instead to Lobularia.
Arabidopsis
Arabidopsis is a genus of nine Brassicaceae species, led by Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress), the first plant genome sequenced (2000, about 125 Mb, five chromosomes) and the standard model organism of plant biology.
Arabidopsis thaliana
Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress, is a small flowering plant in the mustard family and a central model organism in plant biology, with the first fully sequenced plant genome.
Aurinia
Aurinia (L.) Desv., goldentuft or basket of gold, is a genus of 7 Brassicaceae species native to central and southeastern Europe to Türkiye; A. saxatilis is a popular yellow rock-garden perennial.
Barbarea
Barbarea (winter-cress) is a genus of 29 Brassicaceae species, temperate Northern Hemisphere and SE Australia, unique in the family for triterpenoid saponins conferring insect resistance, notably against the diamondback moth.
Bok choy (小白菜)
Bok choy (小白菜, pak choi), Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis, is a non-heading Chinese cabbage with dark leaves and thick white stalks; cool-season crop harvested 40–50 days after sowing, 13 kcal per 100 g raw.
Brassica carinata
Brassica carinata, Ethiopian mustard or Abyssinian mustard, is an allotetraploid (BBCC, 2n=34) oilseed crop from the Ethiopian highlands, derived from B. nigra × B. oleracea, developed for jet fuel and industrial erucic oil.
Brassica nigra
Brassica nigra, black mustard (Sinapis nigra), an erect annual Brassicaceae herb with BB genome 2n=16, grown since antiquity for pungent sinigrin-rich seeds used as condiment mustard and oil; parent of B. juncea and B. carinata.
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.
Camelina
Camelina, known as false flax or "gold of pleasure," is an annual oilseed crop of the mustard family, native to Eastern Europe and Western Asia and grown for omega-3-rich oil and protein-rich meal.
Caper
Capparis spinosa, the caper bush or caper, is a spiny perennial Capparaceae subshrub native from the Mediterranean to Central Asia and the Pacific, whose pickled flower buds are the condiment capers; rich in rutin and other flavonoids.
Capparaceae
Capparaceae (caper family), Capparaceae Juss., a woody flowering-plant family in Brassicales with about 15 genera and 500 tropical species, including Capparis spinosa; distinguished from Brassicaceae and Cleomaceae by fleshy replum-less fruits and a gynophore.
Capparales
Capparales, also called the mustard-oil order, is a historical plant order name now treated as a synonym of Brassicales, containing Brassicaceae, Capparaceae, and Cleomaceae among 17 glucosinolate-producing families.
Capparis
Capparis (caper genus) is the largest genus of Capparaceae, about 142 Old World tropical and subtropical species from Africa and the Mediterranean to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific; includes Capparis spinosa, the source of culinary capers.
Capsella
Capsella is a small genus of flowering plants in the mustard family and a wild relative of Arabidopsis, containing five species including shepherd's purse (C. bursa-pastoris).
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Capsella bursa-pastoris, shepherd's purse, a worldwide Brassicaceae weed and medicinal herb; recent allopolyploid related to Arabidopsis, serious wheat weed in China with ALS herbicide resistance, EU traditional medicine for heavy menstrual bleeding.
Cardamine
Cardamine (bittercress, toothwort) is a Brassicaceae genus of about 264 accepted species published by Linnaeus in 1753, type species C. pratensis, with explosive siliques, heavy polyploidy, and model species such as C. hirsuta.
Caricaceae
Caricaceae, the papaya family, is a small Brassicales family of tropical American trees, shrubs, and herbs plus African Cylicomorpha; sister to Moringaceae; includes Carica papaya, the fourth most important tropical fruit crop.
Crambe
Crambe L. is a Brassicaceae genus of about 30-37 herb species from Europe, Macaronesia, and Asia, whose type species is sea kale; C. abyssinica is an industrial oilseed crop rich in erucic acid.
Diplotaxis
Diplotaxis is a genus of 39 Brassicaceae species native from Europe and the Mediterranean to the Himalaya, including wild rocket (D. tenuifolia) and wall rocket (D. erucoides), salad greens rich in glucosinolates and quercetin flavonols.
Draba
Draba (whitlow-grasses), largest genus of Brassicaceae in tribe Arabideae, over 370 arctic-alpine species on every continent except Australia and Antarctica; monophyletic but with artificial sectional classifications.
Eruca sativa
Eruca sativa, known as arugula, rocket, or rucola, is an annual Mediterranean herb in the mustard family grown as a peppery salad vegetable and for Taramira oil in India.
Eruca vesicaria
Eruca vesicaria, also called garden rocket or arugula (Eruca sativa), is an annual Brassicaceae herb native to Spain, Morocco, and Algeria, grown for pungent salad leaves and taramira seed oil.
Erysimum cheiri
Erysimum cheiri, also Erysimum × cheiri or Cheiranthus cheiri, the wallflower or Aegean wallflower, a fragrant Brassicaceae subshrub native to Greece, naturalized widely, grown ornamentally and used for essential oils and folk medicine.
Hesperis matronalis
Hesperis matronalis, dame's rocket or dame's violet, is a Eurasian biennial mustard with fragrant four-petaled purple or white flowers, widely naturalized and invasive in North America, attacked by the weevil Ceutorhynchus inaffectatus, and often confused with five-petaled garden phlox.
Horseradish
Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana), a Brassicaceae perennial from southeastern Europe and western Asia, grown over 3,000 years for its pungent taproot; allyl isothiocyanate from sinigrin gives the heat, and it substitutes for wasabi.
Isatis tinctoria
Isatis tinctoria (woad, dyer's woad, pastel) is a Brassicaceae biennial native from SE and E Europe to Türkiye, the historical European source of indigo dye via precursors indican and isatan B, displaced by tropical indigo and synthetic indigo.
Lepidium
Lepidium (peppergrasses, cresses) is a cosmopolitan genus of about 264 accepted species in Brassicaceae, tribe Lepidieae, first published by Linnaeus in 1753; it includes garden cress (L. sativum) and maca (L. meyenii).
Lepidium meyenii
Lepidium meyenii (maca) is a Brassicaceae perennial of the high Andes, cultivated at 4,000–4,400 m for its hypocotyl; synonyms include Lepidium peruvianum; studied for sexual function with limited clinical evidence.