Claim · model-written summary
Tetraploid I. tabascana had 16 KFB genes.
- Taxon
- I. tabascana
Ipomoea tabascanae0 - Gene
- KFB genese0
- Outcome
- KFB genese0
- Value
- 16e0
Not reportedMaterialCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“tetraploid I. tabascana, and hexaploid cultivated sweetpotato (I. batatas). We identified 24, 27, 16, and 102 KFB genes in these species, respectively”
Title
Yanxingzi Ma; Guangli Zhou; Jinchai Chen; et al. BMC Genomics 2026. doi:10.1186/s12864-026-12867-9
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Diploid I. trifida had 24 KFB genes.
- Observation Diploid I. triloba had 27 KFB genes.
- Observation Hexaploid I. batatas had 102 KFB genes.
- Association KFB family size did not scale linearly with ploidy across the studied Ipomoea species.
- Observation Segmental duplication predominated in KFB expansion.
- Observation Tandem duplication was not detected in the KFB family.
- Observation Most duplicated KFB gene pairs had Ka/Ks ratios below 1.
- Observation KFB proteins retained conserved F-box/Kelch domain organization despite copy number variation.
- Observation KFB proteins showed moderate motif composition and gene structure variation.
- Observation KFB genes showed tissue, stress and hormone responsive expression divergence.