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Lunaria
Lunaria (honesty, money plant, silver dollar) is a European Brassicaceae genus with three species, L. annua, L. rediviva, and L. telekiana, known for silvery disc-like seed pods and erucic and nervonic acid rich seed oil.
Lunaria annua
Lunaria annua, honesty or annual honesty (money plant, silver dollar plant), is a biennial Brassicaceae herb native to south-central and southern Europe, grown for pink spring flowers and papery coin-like silicles used in dried arrangements.
Moringa (genus)
Moringa (murungai) is the sole genus of Moringaceae, 13 species of dry-tropical trees in Brassicales; M. oleifera, the drumstick tree, is grown for food, fodder, ben oil, and seed-based water coagulation.
Moringa oleifera
Moringa oleifera, the drumstick, horseradish, or ben oil tree, is a fast-growing Himalayan-native tree cultivated across the tropics for nutritious leaves, water-purifying seeds, ben oil, and traditional medicine; clinical evidence remains preliminary.
Moringaceae
Moringaceae, the horseradish tree family, is a conserved Brassicales family with one genus, Moringa Adans., of about 13 dry-tropical species native to Africa, Arabia, and India; Moringa oleifera is the widely cultivated drumstick tree.
Mustard plant
Mustard plant: Brassica juncea, B. nigra, B. rapa, and Sinapis alba, annual Brassicaceae herbs grown for pungent seeds, oil, and greens; pungency from myrosinase acting on glucosinolates to release allyl isothiocyanate.
Papaya
Papaya (Carica papaya, pawpaw, fruta bomba) is a tropical Caricaceae fruit tree from Mesoamerica with XY/XYh sex chromosomes, papain-rich fruit, and PRSV-resistant transgenic Rainbow cultivars in Hawaii.
Rapeseed
Rapeseed (Brassica napus, B. rapa, B. juncea), also called colza or canola when low-erucic, is a major oilseed: ~42% oil, second most produced edible oil, meal 36-38% protein, industrial erucic-acid uses.
Raphanus raphanistrum
Raphanus raphanistrum (wild radish, jointed charlock), a Brassicaceae annual native to Europe through Central Asia and ancestor of the cultivated radish; a major Australian crop weed with widespread multiple herbicide resistance and seeds viable up to 20 years.
Reseda
Reseda (mignonette genus, Resedaceae), about 65 Old World species centered on the Mediterranean; includes weld (R. luteola), the historic luteolin yellow dye plant, and fragrant R. odorata.
Resedaceae
Resedaceae, the mignonette family (type genus Reseda), is a small Brassicales family of herbs and shrubs producing glucosinolates, centered on the Mediterranean, with 6 traditional genera and about 60 species, 11 genera in modern circumscriptions.
Salvadora persica
Salvadora persica, known as Arak or Peelu, is an evergreen shrub or small tree whose twigs are the traditional miswak chewing stick used as a natural toothbrush.
Sinapis
Sinapis (mustard) is a genus of three accepted Brassicaceae species native from temperate Eurasia to North Africa; its species Sinapis alba, white or yellow mustard, is a major condiment and cover crop.
Sinapis alba
Sinapis alba (white mustard, yellow mustard, syn. Brassica hirta), an annual Brassicaceae herb with 2n=24 (SS genome), grown for condiment seed rich in sinalbin, green manure, forage, and oil.
Sinapis arvensis
Sinapis arvensis, charlock or wild mustard (synonym Brassica kaber, NCBI name Mutarda arvensis), is an annual Brassicaceae weed of Eurasian and North African origin, naturalized worldwide, with light-requiring coat-imposed seed dormancy and ALS-inhibitor-resistant Turkish biotypes.
Sisymbrium
Sisymbrium (hedge mustards, rockets) is a genus of Brassicaceae herbs published by Linnaeus in 1753, lectotype S. altissimum; about 41-90 species, Miocene origin in the Irano-Turanian region, yellow flowers and 3-nerved linear siliques.
Thlaspi
Thlaspi L. is a small genus of Brassicaceae herbs native to temperate Eurasia, published by Linnaeus in 1753 with 9 accepted species; formerly broad Thlaspi s.l. was split into Noccaea, Microthlaspi, and other genera.
Thlaspi arvense
Thlaspi arvense, field pennycress or stinkweed, is a Eurasian mustard-family annual weed of cropland being domesticated in the US Midwest as a winter annual oilseed cash cover crop for corn-soybean rotations and aviation biofuel.
Tropaeolum
Tropaeolum, the nasturtium genus (nasturtiums, Indian cress), is a Brassicales genus of 93 accepted species in Tropaeolaceae, native from Mexico to southern South America; includes garden nasturtium T. majus and the Andean tuber crop mashua.
Wasabi (山葵)
Wasabi (山葵, Eutrema japonicum) is a Japanese Brassicaceae herb grown for its grated rhizome's isothiocyanate pungency; cultivation began in Keicho-era Shizuoka, whose terraced spring-water fields are a FAO heritage site.
Watercress
Watercress (Nasturtium officinale) is a perennial aquatic plant in the cabbage family grown for its peppery leaves, native to Eurasia and spread worldwide by European settlement.