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The beetroot (British English) or beet (North American English) is the taproot portion of a Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris plant in the Conditiva Group. [1] The plant is a root vegetable also known as the table beet , garden beet , dinner beet , or else categorized by color: red beet or golden beet .
Beetroot remains have been excavated in the Third dynasty Saqqara pyramid at Thebes, Egypt, and four charred beetroots were found in the Neolithic site of Aartswoud in the Netherlands though it has not been determined whether these were domesticated or wild forms of B. vulgaris. Zohary and Hopf note that beetroot is "linguistically well ...
Nematodes, parasitic; Beet cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii. Clover cyst nematode Heterodera trifolii. False root-knot nematode Nacobbus aberrans
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris (Syn.: Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla (L.) Arcang., Beta vulgaris subsp. rapacea (Koch) Döll).: all cultivated beets (chard, beetroot), sugar beet, and mangelwurzel) belong to this subspecies. [1] Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima, Sea beet, the wild ancestor of all cultivated beets. Its distribution area reaches from the ...
It is a variety of Beta vulgaris, [5] the same species that also contains the red beet (beetroot) and sugar beet varieties. The cultivar group is named Crassa Group. [ 6 ] Their large white, yellow or orange-yellow swollen roots were developed in the 18th century as a fodder crop for feeding livestock .
Together with other beet cultivars, such as beetroot and chard, it belongs to the subspecies Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris but classified as var. saccharifera. Its closest wild relative is the sea beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima). [2] Sugar beets are grown in climates that are too cold for sugarcane.
Beet (Beta vulgaris) has an immense economic importance as sugar crop , and a great importance as a vegetable (chard, beetroot), and as fodder plant (mangelwurzel). This species is also used as medicinal plant, ornamental plant, dye and as renewable resource.
George Beet (disambiguation), the name of two English cricketers Gordon Beet (1939-1994), English cricketer; Harry Churchill Beet (1873-1946), English recipient of the Victoria Cross