CGP Home
  CGP Database
  
  • Database Home
  •   
  • Database Overview
  •   
  • Contig Viewer
  •   
  • Compositae Resources
  •   
  • Lettuce Genetic Maps
  •   
  • Sunflower Genetic Maps
  •   
  • Morphodb
  •   
  • Site Map

  •   Bioinformatics Tools
      Publications
      Contact Us
     
      Species name: Yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius [Poeppig and Endlicher] H. Robinson.)
      Overview
    Yacón is an herbaceous perennial native to Andean highlands, from southern Colombia to northern Argentina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacón). The species is cultivated in the Andes and sporadically elsewhere for its crisp, sweet-tasting tubers. Yacón is a close relative of sunflower and Jerusalem artichoke, and recent classifications place it in subfamily Asteroideae, Tribe Millerieae, and subtribe Milleriinae. The species has a gametophytic chromosome number of 30, and some authors have speculated that Yacón is an allotretraploid. However, its genome size is currently unknown.
      Resources
    • Nucleotide sequences (1 total) on GenBank as of 12/2012: available here
    • EST library based on 454 sequencing (436 Mbp): not available yet
    • Assembly information: download here
      Images of Smallanthus sonchifolius
      
      Figure 1: Yacón. Photo by Fk. 2005; licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.
      CGP Activities
    We generated the EST library described above, which we are using to assess expression differences between leaves and tubers and to determine the distribution of whole genome duplications in the Compositae.
           CGP Home       UC Davis Genome Center       UC Davis       NCBI
    Copyright 2002-2025, the Michelmore Lab of UC Davis Genome Center
    Contact Us  |  Disclaimer Information