Baoqing beet

Beta vulgaris, Chenopodiaceae, is divided into wild species and cultivated species. There are four varieties of cultivated species: sugar beet, leaf beet, root beet and feed beet. Sugar beet used as raw material for sugar production is a biennial crop. Beet tubers are raw materials for sugar industry and can also be used as feed. It is one of the main sugar crops in China. In the first year of life, it mainly grows nutritionally, accumulating rich nutrients in hypertrophy roots, and in the second year, it mainly grows reproductively, and the flower branches are cross-pollinated to form seeds. Sugar beet originated from the Mediterranean coast, and wild species of coastal beet was the ancestor of cultivated beet. It was introduced into China from Arab countries about 1500 years ago. In China, leaf beets have a long history of cultivation, while sugar beets were introduced only in 1906. The main beet producing areas in China are northeast, northwest and north China.
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