Colocasia esculenta
Coles Araceae

Colocasia esculenta

Araceae Family
Taxonomic Classification
Kingdom Plantae Family Araceae
PlantGIR · v1.0
Genome & Ploidy
Polyploidy History (PhyloWGD)
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Species Notes
Description
Taro is a root vegetable. It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, stems and petioles. Taro corms are a food staple in African, Caribbean, Oceanian, East Asian, Southeast Asian and South Asian cultures.
Data source
sync_pangenome_to_db.py
Wikipedia
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Image credit
© Wikimedia Commons — Taro
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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
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