Fagopyrum
Sign in to saveThe genus Fagopyrum is in the flowering plant family Polygonaceae. It includes some important food plants, such as F. esculentum (buckwheat) and F. tataricum (Tartary buckwheat). The genus is native to the Indian subcontinent, much of Indochina, central and southeastern China, and central and eastern tropical Africa. Species have been widely introduced elsewhere, throughout the Holarctic and parts of Africa and South America.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyPolygonaceae
Native toAssam, Burundi, Cameroon, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, DR Congo, East Himalaya, India, Kenya, Laos, Myanmar
General: Fagopyrum (from φαγο, fago, beech and υρος, pyros, kernel).
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Research
1,925 papers- Phytochemistry, Bioactivities of Metabolites, and Traditional Uses of Fagopyrum tataricum.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
- Phytochemical and Pharmacological Profiles of Three Fagopyrum Buckwheats.International journal of molecular sciences · 2016
- Immunostaining for Epigenetic Modifications in Fagopyrum Calli.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
- Buckwheat (Fagopyrum spp.): Building Healthy Diets and Resilient Agrifood Systems.Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2026
- Visualization of Fagopyrum esculentum and Fagopyrum tataricum Chromosomes and Micronuclei.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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The genus Fagopyrum is in the flowering plant family Polygonaceae. It includes some important food plants, such as F. esculentum (buckwheat) and F. tataricum (Tartary buckwheat). The genus is native to the Indian subcontinent, much of Indochina, central and southeastern China, and central and eastern tropical Africa. Species have been widely introduced elsewhere, throughout the Holarctic and parts of Africa and South America.
==Description== Fagopyrum contains 30 species of plants, including two important crop plants, buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum), and Fagopyrum tataricum (Tartary buckwheat). The two have similar uses, and are classed as pseudocereals, because they are used in the same way as cereals but do not belong to the grass family Poaceae.