Coix

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Coix Script error: No such module "IPAc-en". is a genus of Asian and Australian plants in the grass family.[1][2]

The best-known species is Coix lacryma-jobi, widely called Job's tears. Its variety Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen is cultivated in many warm regions as a source of food, medicine, and ornamentation.[3][4]

The generic name is from Ancient Greek κόϊξ (koix), which originally referred to the doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica); the fruits of the doum palm resemble the diaspores of Coix.[5]

Species

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Formerly Included

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Formerly included in

This genus was formerly placed in the Maydeae, now known to be polyphyletic.[Sch 1]

Proteins and expression

Members of this genus produce their own variety of α-zein prolamins. These prolamins have undergone unusually rapid evolutionary divergence from closely related grasses, by way of copy-number changes.[Sch 2]

References

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  1. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 972 in Latin
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  3. Hill, A.F. 1952. Economic Botany, McGraw-Hill
  4. Arora, R. K., 1977, "Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi) - a minor food and fodder crop of northeastern India." Economic Botany, Volume 31, issue 3, pages 358–366.
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  1. p.Script error: No such module "String".331, "Maize and Tripsacum were previously grouped with a number of other grasses that have monoecious flowering patterns Template:Mdash the most widely known being Job’s tears (Coix lacryma-jobi) Template:Mdash into the Maydeae (74); however, molecular data revealed that this grouping was polyphyletic (61)."
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