A cool-season vegetable (Brassica oleracea, Italica group) developed in Italy from wild cabbage relatives, selectively bred over centuries for its edible flower heads and thick stalks, and closely related to cauliflower, cabbage and other Brassica oleracea crops grown from the same wild ancestor. Cultivation spread from Italy across Europe and reached the United States in significant commercial quantity only in the twentieth century, where California became the dominant domestic growing region. China, India and other countries have since become major producers as well, and broccoli is now grown worldwide as both a fresh market and processed frozen vegetable crop.
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Broccoli resulted from the breeding of landrace Brassica crops in the northern Mediterranean starting in about the sixth century BCE.
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was most likely improved via artificial selection in the southern Italian Peninsula or in Sicily.
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1. Plants For A Future: Brassica oleracea italica - PFAF Plant Database
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Brassica oleracea italica is a BIENNIAL growing to
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italica) is an edible green plant in the cabbage family (family Brassicaceae, genus Brassica) whose large flowering head, stalk and small associated leaves are eaten as a vegetable.
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A cool-season vegetable (Brassica oleracea, Italica group) developed in Italy from wild cabbage relatives, selectively bred over centuries for its edible flower heads and thick stalks, and closely related to cauliflower, cabbage and other Brassica oleracea crops grown from the same wild ancestor.
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This is damaging to young seedlings and may disrupt head formation in cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower.
Silverleaf Whitefly (Wikipedia)
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Common hosts are agricultural crops including tomatoes, squash, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, melons, cotton, carrots, sweet potato, cucumber, and pumpkin, and ornamental plants such as poinsettia, crepe myrtle, garden roses, lantana, and lilies.
Heterodera schachtii (Wikipedia)
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It infects more than 200 different plants including economically important crops such as sugar beets, cabbage, broccoli, and radish.
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