Description

Brassica oleracea is a plant species from family Brassicaceae that includes many common cultivars used as vegetables, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan. Its uncultivated form, wild cabbage, native to coastal southern and western Europe, is a hardy plant with high tolerance for salt and lime. However, its intolerance of competition from other plants typically restricts its natural occurrence to limestone sea cliffs, like the chalk cliffs on both sides of the English Channel. Wild B. oleracea is a tall biennial plant that forms a stout rosette of large leaves in the first year. The leaves are fleshier and thicker than other Brassica species—an adaptation that helps it store water and nutrients in its difficult growing environment. In its second year, it uses the stored nutrients to produce a flower spike 1 to 2 metres (3–7 ft) tall with numerous yellow flowers. A 2021 study suggested that the Eastern Mediterranean Brassica cretica was the origin of domesticated B. oleracea. Genetic analysis of nine wild populations on the French Atlantic coast indicated their common feral origin, deriving from domesticated plants escaped from fields and gardens.

Whole Genomes

Whole Genome Sequences & Annotations for Brassica oleracea

• Brassica oleracea ASM3463897v1

S genes

Brassica oleracea ASM3463897v1 S genes

Query	Chromosome	Size(bp)	Coordinates	BLASTp Hit	BLASTp %ID
SRK	CM068153.1	56303276	38584351-38585608,38584046-38584306, 38583932-38584022,38583621-38583879, 38583315-38583538,38583076-38583226, 38582690-38582998	SRKb|AB052756.1_prot_BAB40987.1	36.45
SCR	CM068153.1	56303276	37825101-37825170,37825269-37825483	XP_018438641.1	87.67

Downloads

The Brassica oleracea S gene sequences are available in FASTA format.

CDS and Protein (FASTA file)

S-gene_Brassica_oleracea

Publications

Liu S, Liu Y, Yang X, Tong C, Edwards D, Parkin IA, Zhao M, Ma J, Yu J, Huang S, Wang X, Wang J, Lu K, Fang Z, Bancroft I, Yang TJ, Hu Q, Wang X, Yue Z, Li H, Yang L, Wu J, Zhou Q, Wang W, King GJ, Pires JC, Lu C, Wu Z, Sampath P, Wang Z, Guo H, Pan S, Yang L, Min J, Zhang D, Jin D, Li W, Belcram H, Tu J, Guan M, Qi C, Du D, Li J, Jiang L, Batley J, Sharpe AG, Park BS, Ruperao P, Cheng F, Waminal NE, Huang Y, Dong C, Wang L, Li J, Hu Z, Zhuang M, Huang Y, Huang J, Shi J, Mei D, Liu J, Lee TH, Wang J, Jin H, Li Z, Li X, Zhang J, Xiao L, Zhou Y, Liu Z, Liu X, Qin R, Tang X, Liu W, Wang Y, Zhang Y, Lee J, Kim HH, Denoeud F, Xu X, Liang X, Hua W, Wang X, Wang J, Chalhoub B, Paterson AH. The Brassica oleracea genome reveals the asymmetrical evolution of polyploid genomes. Nat Commun. 2014 May 23;5:3930. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4930.

Belser C, Istace B, Denis E, Dubarry M, Baurens FC, Falentin C, Genete M, Berrabah W, Chèvre AM, Delourme R, Deniot G, Denoeud F, Duffé P, Engelen S, Lemainque A, Manzanares-Dauleux M, Martin G, Morice J, Noel B, Vekemans X, D'Hont A, Rousseau-Gueutin M, Barbe V, Cruaud C, Wincker P, Aury JM. Chromosome-scale assemblies of plant genomes using nanopore long reads and optical maps. Nat Plants. 2018 Nov;4(11):879-887. doi: 10.1038/s41477-018-0289-4.

Sun D, Wang C, Zhang X, Zhang W, Jiang H, Yao X, Liu L, Wen Z, Niu G, Shan X. Draft genome sequence of cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L. var. botrytis) provides new insights into the C genome in Brassica species. Hortic Res. 2019 Jul 1;6:82. doi: 10.1038/s41438-019-0164-0.

Li X, Wang Y, Cai C, Ji J, Han F, Zhang L, Chen S, Zhang L, Yang Y, Tang Q, Bucher J, Wang X, Yang L, Zhuang M, Zhang K, Lv H, Bonnema G, Zhang Y, Cheng F. Large-scale gene expression alterations introduced by structural variation drive morphotype diversification in Brassica oleracea. Nat Genet. 2024 Mar;56(3):517-529. doi: 10.1038/s41588-024-01655-4.