Dioscorea alata
Dioal Dioscoreaceae

Dioscorea alata

Dioscoreaceae Family
Taxonomic Classification
Kingdom Plantae Family Dioscoreaceae
PlantGIR · v1.0
Genome & Ploidy
Polyploidy History (PhyloWGD)
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Species Notes
Description
Dioscorea alata – also called ube, ubi, uwhi, purple yam, or greater yam, among many other names – is a species of yam. The tubers are usually a vivid violet-purple to bright lavender, but some range from creamy-white to plain white. It is sometimes confused with taro and the Okinawa sweet potato beniimo (紅芋), however D.
Data source
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© Wikimedia Commons — Dioscorea alata
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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
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Evolutionary Analysis
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