Lepidium meyenii
Lepme Brassicaceae

Lepidium meyenii

Brassicaceae Family
Taxonomic Classification
Kingdom Plantae Family Brassicaceae
PlantGIR · v1.0
Genome & Ploidy
Polyploidy History (PhyloWGD)
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Species Notes
Description
Lepidium meyenii, known as maca or Peruvian ginseng, is an edible herbaceous biennial plant of the family Brassicaceae that is native to South America in the high Andes mountains of Peru and Bolivia. It was rediscovered for commercial purposes at the Meseta de Bombón plateau close to Lake Junin in the late 1980s. It is grown for its fleshy hypocotyl that is fused with a taproot, which is typically dried but may also be freshly cooked as a root vegetable.
Data source
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Protein sequences
FASTA (.pep) — amino acid sequences for all annotated genes
Gene coordinates
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Coding sequences
FASTA (.cds) — nucleotide CDS for Ka/Ks analysis
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