Carthamus tinctorius
Carti Asteraceae

Carthamus tinctorius

Asteraceae Family
Taxonomic Classification
Kingdom Plantae Family Asteraceae
PlantGIR · v1.0
Genome & Ploidy
Polyploidy History (PhyloWGD)
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Species Notes
Description
Safflower, also false saffron, is a highly branched, herbaceous, thistle-like annual plant in the family Asteraceae. It is one of the world's oldest crops; today, it is commercially cultivated for vegetable oil extracted from the seeds. Plants are 30 to 150 cm tall with globular flower heads having yellow, orange, or red flowers.
Data source
sync_pangenome_to_db.py
Wikipedia
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Image credit
© Wikimedia Commons — Safflower
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Protein sequences
FASTA (.pep) — amino acid sequences for all annotated genes
Gene coordinates
BED format — chromosomal positions for MCScanX input
Coding sequences
FASTA (.cds) — nucleotide CDS for Ka/Ks analysis
Gene type annotations
TSV — gene duplication classifications
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Analysis Tools
Synteny & Collinearity
MCScanX Dotplot Synteny Network SynVisio
Evolutionary Analysis
Ks / Riparian
Sequence Search
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