Description

Coix is a grass crop domesticated as early as Neolithic era. It is still widely cultivated for both highly nutritional food and medicinal use. The Kanglaite drug extracted from Coix seeds has been widely used to cure cancer and reduce the side effects of other treatments.

Scientific classitication

Family: Poaceae

Genus: Coix

Common Name

Yi Yi

Reference

Liu, H., Shi, J., Cai, Z., Huang, Y., Lv, M., Du, H., ... & Qin, R. (2020). Evolution and domestication footprints uncovered from the genomes of coix. Molecular Plant, 13(2), 295-308.