Mutational and evolutionary dynamics of Brassicaceae plant organs

The plant family of Brassicaceae (Syn., Cruciferae after the four petals in cruciform arrangement) comprises over 3,700 species of 338 genera including vegetables, crops, fodder crops and wild species. The most species-rich genera are the wild plants Draba (440 species), Erysimum (261 species), Lepidium (234 species), Cardamine (233 species), and Alyssum (207 species) (http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/; Simoncsics, 2017). The families of Armoracia, Raphanus, Sinapis, Wasabia, Arabidopsis (Rédei, G. [1921-2008], 1975; TAIR - www.arabidopsis.org) with over 50 species (http://www.theplantlist.org), and Thlaspi jankae (pennycress Janka, described in Hungary by Janka, V. [1837-1890]) also belongs to Cruciferae. Genus Brassica comprises 37 species and numerous subspecies (ssp.) and over 3.000 registered cultivars (cv.) growing globally. Here we analyze genomes and genes of BRASSICACEAE species based on in silico data mining (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) to reveal further rationale for the extreme levels (Li et al., 2024) of plant organs mutations, molecular diversity, phenotypic plasticity, diversification, domestication, evolution, selection, speciation and breeding of BRASSICACEAE species.