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Integrating indigenous crops in agroforestry systems: Lesser yam and teak mixed systems are more profitable than monocultures in Indonesia

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Major staple crops are often introduced and cultivated in monocultures. Yams are staple crops native to the majority of low‐ and middle‐income countries and can provide an alternative to introduced staple crops. We showed that lesser yams cultivated together with teak trees (planted at the border of the farm) are more profitable than lesser yam ...
Budiadi, Sawitri, Enggal Primananda, Aqmal Nur Jihad, Marco Campera, Rika Bela Rahmawati   +5 more
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Past, present and future of local crop evolution

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales, Philippa Ryan, Amy Jackson, Hong Phuong Le, James Borrell, Aaron Davis, Rafal M. Gutaker   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Dioscorea polystachya Turcz.

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021
Dioscorea polystachya Turcz. is an important Chinese herbal medicine and the raw material of the medicine ingrediente (Chinese yam polysaccharide). It belongs to Dioscorea, which has 60 species and distribute in middle and southeast of China.
Na Hu, Jianwu Gong, Biming Zhang
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The origin and evolution of the diosgenin biosynthetic pathway in yam

Plant Communications, 2021
Diosgenin, mainly produced by Dioscorea species, is a traditional precursor of most hormonal drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. The mechanisms that underlie the origin and evolution of diosgenin biosynthesis in plants remain unclear.
Jian Cheng, Jing Chen, Xiaonan Liu, Xiangchen Li, Weixiong Zhang, Zhubo Dai, Lina Lu, Xiang Zhou, Jing Cai, Xueli Zhang, Huifeng Jiang, Yanhe Ma   +11 more
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Rewiring Steroidal Metabolic Pathways for Diosgenin Production in Solanum nigrum

Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diosgenin is a key starting material for the synthesis of steroidal drugs, such as corticosteroids and sex hormones. While the primary commercial source of diosgenin is the tubers of Dioscorea spp., identifying alternative plant hosts capable of diosgenin biosynthesis could enhance its production.
Jongbu Lim, Keunhwa Kim, Jung Heo, Seung Mo Seo, Sungjun Choung, Hyeonjin Kim, Yuri Choi, Kyungsun Park, Hyejung Yun, Dongha Kim, Eun Song Lee, Junwoo Lee, Smita Mirsyad Warsadiharja, Saet Buyl Lee, Sunkyu Han, Soon Ju Park, Sang‐Gyu Kim   +16 more
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Review of empirical and emerging breeding methods and tools for yam ( Dioscorea spp.) improvement: Status and prospects

Plant Breeding, 2019
Yam is a multi-species monocotyledonous crop extensively disseminated in Africa, Asia, Oceania and South America. The genus Dioscorea to which yam belongs encompasses about 600 species (Burkill, 1960); however, a few are cultivated for food and income ...
K. Darkwa, B. Olasanmi, R. Asiedu, A. Asfaw   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Genome analyses reveal the hybrid origin of the staple crop white Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Significance Guinea yam is an important staple tuber crop in West Africa, where it contributes to the sustenance and sociocultural lives of millions of people. Understanding the genetic diversity of Guinea yam and its relationships with wild relatives is
Yu Sugihara, K. Darkwa, Hiroki Yaegashi, S. Natsume, Motoki Shimizu, A. Abe, Akiko Hirabuchi, Kazue Ito, Kaori Oikawa, Muluneh Tamiru-Oli, A. Ohta, R. Matsumoto, P. Agre, D. De Koeyer, Babil Pachakkil, S. Yamanaka, S. Muranaka, H. Takagi, Benjamen White, R. Asiedu, H. Innan, A. Asfaw, P. Adebola, R. Terauchi   +23 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

IUCN Red List Regional Assessment of the Flora of Niue Utilising Indigenous Local Knowledge and Botanical Information

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 56, Issue 2, April 2026.
A regional assessment of the indigenous vascular plants of Niue is presented using the IUCN Red List criteria. The assessment was undertaken during a community workshop that drew on the indigenous local knowledge and scientific information. The assessment comprised 197 named taxa and 8 indeterminate entities, with 4 (2.0%) taxa assessed as Extinct and ...
Peter B. Heenan, Huggard E. Tongatule, Workshop Panel   +2 more
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ACLIMATIZACIÓN DE PLÁNTULAS DE YAMPÍ (Dioscorea trifida) Y ÑAME (D. alata) PRODUCIDAS in vitro

Agronomía Costarricense, 2005
La siembra de yampí (Dioscorea trifida) y ñame (D. alata) en Costa Rica se realiza primordialmente con fines de exportación a Europa y Norteamérica. La producción nacional se ve seriamente limitada por la falta de semilla libre de plagas y enfermedades.
Ana Gabriela Chacón, Luis Gómez, Sergio Torres, Francisco Saborío   +3 more
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A Sequence-Independent Strategy for Amplification and Characterisation of Episomal Badnavirus Sequences Reveals Three Previously Uncharacterised Yam Badnaviruses

Viruses, 2016
Yam (Dioscorea spp.) plants are potentially hosts to a diverse range of badnavirus species (genus Badnavirus, family Caulimoviridae), but their detection is complicated by the existence of integrated badnavirus sequences in some yam genomes.
Moritz Bömer, Aliyu A. Turaki, Gonçalo Silva, P. Lava Kumar, Susan E. Seal   +4 more
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