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Yacón, the Glossary

The yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius) is a species of daisy traditionally grown in the northern and central Andes from Colombia to northern Argentina for its crisp, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots.^[1]

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Crops originating from Peru
Perennial vegetables
Prebiotics (nutrition)
Smallanthus
Taxa named by Eduard Friedrich Poeppig

Achene

An achene, also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp, is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants.

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Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

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Antioxidant

Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation (usually occurring as autoxidation), a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Asteraceae

Asteraceae is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.

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Bioactive compound

A bioactive compound is a compound that has an effect on a living organism, tissue or cell, usually demonstrated by basic research in vitro or in vivo in the laboratory.

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Calcium

Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20.

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A carbohydrate is a biomolecule consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms, usually with a hydrogen–oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 (as in water) and thus with the empirical formula (where m may or may not be different from n), which does not mean the H has covalent bonds with O (for example with, H has a covalent bond with C but not with O).

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Chlorogenic acid

Chlorogenic acid (CGA) is the ester of caffeic acid and (−)-quinic acid, functioning as an intermediate in lignin biosynthesis.

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Chlorosis

In botany, chlorosis is a condition in which leaves produce insufficient chlorophyll.

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Chlosyne lacinia

Chlosyne lacinia, the bordered patch or sunflower patch, is a North and South American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Common sunflower

The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is a species of large annual forb of the daisy family Asteraceae.

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Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels.

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Eduard Friedrich Poeppig

Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (16 July 1798 – 4 September 1868) was a German botanist, zoologist and explorer.

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Elecampane

Elecampane (Inula helenium), pronounced and also called horse-heal or elfdock, is a widespread plant species in the sunflower family Asteraceae.

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Essential amino acid

An essential amino acid, or indispensable amino acid, is an amino acid that cannot be synthesized from scratch by the organism fast enough to supply its demand, and must therefore come from the diet.

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Fabaceae

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...

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Fertilizer

A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English) is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients.

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Fructan

A fructan is a polymer of fructose molecules. Yacón and fructan are Prebiotics (nutrition).

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Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) also sometimes called oligofructose or oligofructan, are oligosaccharide fructans, used as an alternative sweetener. Yacón and Fructooligosaccharide are Prebiotics (nutrition).

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Fructose

Fructose, or fruit sugar, is a ketonic simple sugar found in many plants, where it is often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide sucrose.

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Fungus

A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.

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Glossary of botanical terms

This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general.

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Glucose

Glucose is a sugar with the molecular formula.

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Harold E. Robinson

Harold Ernest Robinson (May 22, 1932 – December 17, 2020) was an American botanist and entomologist.

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Helianthus

Helianthus is a genus comprising about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae commonly known as sunflowers.

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Hyperglycemia

Hyperglycemia or Hyperglycaemia is a condition in which an excessive amount of glucose circulates in the blood plasma.

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Inca Empire

The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Tawantinsuyu, "four parts together"), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.

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Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

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International Potato Center

The International Potato Center (known as CIP from its Spanish-language name Centro Internacional de la Papa) is a research facility based in Lima, Peru, that seeks to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweet potato, other root and tuber crops, and on the improved management of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain areas.

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Inulin

Inulins are a group of naturally occurring polysaccharides produced by many types of plants, industrially most often extracted from chicory. Yacón and Inulin are Prebiotics (nutrition).

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Jerusalem artichoke

The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), also called sunroot, sunchoke, wild sunflower, topinambur, or earth apple, is a species of sunflower native to central North America. Yacón and Jerusalem artichoke are perennial vegetables and root vegetables.

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Kathmandu

Kathmandu, officially Kathmandu Metropolitan City, is the capital and most populous city of Nepal with 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households as of the 2021 Nepal census and approximately 4 million people in its urban agglomeration.

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Lima

Lima, founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (Spanish for "City of Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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Meloidogyne incognita

Meloidogyne incognita (root-knot nematode, RKN), also known as the southern root-nematode or cotton root-knot nematode is a plant-parasitic roundworm in the family Heteroderidae.

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Moche culture

The Moche civilization (alternatively, the Moche culture or the Early, Pre- or Proto-Chimú) flourished in northern Peru with its capital near present-day Moche, Trujillo, Peru from about 100 to 700 AD during the Regional Development Epoch.

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Necrosis

Necrosis is a form of cell injury which results in the premature death of cells in living tissue by autolysis.

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Nematode

The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.

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New World crops

New World crops are those crops, food and otherwise, that are native to the New World (mostly the Americas) and were not found in the Old World before 1492 AD.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Oligosaccharide

An oligosaccharide is a saccharide polymer containing a small number (typically three to ten) of monosaccharides (simple sugars).

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Oxalis tuberosa

Oxalis tuberosa is a perennial herbaceous plant that overwinters as underground stem tubers. Yacón and Oxalis tuberosa are crops originating from Peru, perennial vegetables and root vegetables.

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Pachyrhizus erosus

Pachyrhizus erosus, commonly known as jícama (or; Spanish jícama; from Nahuatl xīcamatl) or Mexican turnip, is a native Mexican vine, although the name jícama most commonly refers to the plant's edible tuberous root. Yacón and Pachyrhizus erosus are root vegetables.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Photoperiodism

Photoperiod is the change of day length around the seasons.

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Phyllotaxis

In botany, phyllotaxis or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem.

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Phytoalexin

Phytoalexins are antimicrobial substances, some of which are antioxidative as well.

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Plant propagation

Plant propagation is the process by which new plants grow from various sources, including seeds, cuttings, and other plant parts.

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Plant reproductive morphology

Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction.

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Polysaccharide

Polysaccharides, or polycarbohydrates, are the most abundant carbohydrates found in food.

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Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.

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Pseudanthium

A pseudanthium (false flower;: pseudanthia) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Radical (chemistry)

In chemistry, a radical, also known as a free radical, is an atom, molecule, or ion that has at least one unpaired valence electron.

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Rhizoctonia

Rhizoctonia is a genus of fungi in the order Cantharellales.

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Rhizome

In botany and dendrology, a rhizome is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow horizontally. The rhizome also retains the ability to allow new shoots to grow upwards.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Sucrose

Sucrose, a disaccharide, is a sugar composed of glucose and fructose subunits.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.

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Thames & Hudson

Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts.

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Tropaeolum tuberosum

Tropaeolum tuberosum (mashua, see below for other names) is a species of flowering plant in the family Tropaeolaceae, grown in the Andes, particularly in Peru and Bolivia, and to a lesser extent in Ecuador as well as in some areas of Colombia, for its edible tubers, which are eaten cooked or roasted as a vegetable. Yacón and Tropaeolum tuberosum are crops originating from Peru, perennial vegetables and root vegetables.

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Tryptophan

Tryptophan (symbol Trp or W) is an α-amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins.

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Tuber

Tubers are a type of enlarged structure that plants use as storage organs for nutrients, derived from stems or roots.

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Ullucus

Ullucus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Basellaceae, with one species, Ullucus tuberosus, a plant grown primarily as a root vegetable, secondarily as a leaf vegetable. Yacón and Ullucus are crops originating from Peru and root vegetables.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacón

Also known as Peruvian ground apple, Polymnia sonchifolia, Smallanthus sanchifolius, Smallanthus sonchifolius, Yacón Tea, Yakon.

, Phytoalexin, Plant propagation, Plant reproductive morphology, Polysaccharide, Potassium, Pseudanthium, Queensland, Radical (chemistry), Rhizoctonia, Rhizome, South America, Sucrose, Tasmania, Thames & Hudson, Tropaeolum tuberosum, Tryptophan, Tuber, Ullucus, Viola (plant), Virus, Yacón syrup.

Yacón, the Glossary

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See also

Crops originating from Peru

Perennial vegetables

Prebiotics (nutrition)

Smallanthus

Taxa named by Eduard Friedrich Poeppig

References