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It later spread to Europe and East Asia with farmers in both areas later selecting for larger leaves; it subsequently became an important food in the Hellenistic and Roman world. [5] The turnip spread to China, and reached Japan by 700 CE. [5] Turnips were an important crop in the cuisine of Antebellum America.
The turnip then spread east to China, and reached Japan by 700 AD. [11] In the 18th century, the turnip and the oilseed-producing variants were thought to be different species by Carl Linnaeus, who named them B. rapa and B. campestris. Twentieth-century taxonomists found that the plants were cross fertile and thus belonged to the same species.
Kohlrabi (German: [koːlˈʁaːbi] ⓘ; pronounced / k oʊ l ˈ r ɑː b i / in English; scientific name Brassica oleracea Gongylodes Group), also called German turnip or turnip cabbage, is a biennial vegetable, a low, stout cultivar of wild cabbage.
Pachyrhizus erosus, commonly known as jícama (/ ˈ h ɪ k ə m ə / or / dʒ ɪ ˈ k ɑː m ə /; [1] Spanish jícama ⓘ; from Nahuatl xīcamatl, [ʃiːˈkamatɬ]) or Mexican turnip, is a native Mesoamerican vine, although the name jícama most commonly refers to the plant's edible tuberous root. It is in the pea family (Fabaceae).
The Norfolk four-course system is a method of agriculture that involves crop rotation.Unlike earlier methods such as the three-field system, the Norfolk system is marked by an absence of a fallow year.
A Wichita village surrounded by fields of maize and other crops. Gathering wild plants, such as the prairie turnip (Pediomelum esculentum, syn. Psoralea esculenta) and chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) for food was undoubtedly a practice of Indian societies on the Great Plains since their earliest habitation 13,000 or more years ago. [3]
The word's ending was changed to -nip by analogy with turnip because it was ... The parsnip's popularity as a cultivated plant has led to its spread beyond its native ...
Although debatable, many agricultural historians also believe that the introduction of convertible husbandry was brought about with the introduction of the turnip. They argue that "the lowly turnip made possible a change in crop rotation which did not require much capital, but which brought about a tremendous rise in agricultural productivity."