Called “Yams, Colicroots, And Allies” in GBIF
The Dioscoreales are an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants, organized under modern classification systems, such as the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group or the Angiosperm Phylogeny Web. Among monocot plants, Dioscoreales are grouped with the lilioid monocots, wherein they are a sister group to the Pandanales. In total, the order Dioscoreales comprises three families, 22 genera and about 850 species.
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Growers of medicinal or culinary yams who rotate the same beds year after year face steadily wors...
That purple yam you might grow as an ornamental or edible in a warm-climate garden turns out to p...
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Certain rare soil fungi, when used to inoculate Chinese yam roots, boosted plant growth and reshaped the surrounding microbial community more effectively than common strains or mixed cocktails. The findings suggest that carefully selected single-strain inoculants may help break the cycle of replant failure that plagues continuously cropped medicinal yams.
That purple yam you might grow as an ornamental or edible in a warm-climate garden turns out to pack the same class of pigment...
