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Internal ID UUID6440283ddae73145772564
Scientific name Crocus ancyrensis
Authority Maw
First published in Gard. Chron. , n.s., 16: 528 (1881)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Crocus reticulatus var. ancyrensis Herb. J. Hort. Soc. London 2: 279. 1847

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Language Common/alternative name
Azerbaijani ankara zəfəranı
ba Анкара зәғферәне
Welsh saffrwm ancara
German kleinasiatischer krokus
German ankara-krokus
Icelandic glókrókus
Georgian ანკარული ზაფრანა
Latvian ankaras krokuss
Polish szafran turecki
Punjab انکرہ کیسر
Russian Крокус анкарский
Swedish turkisk krokus
Turkish ankara Çiğdemi
Turkish ankara çiğdemi
Urdu انقرہ زغفران
Chinese 安卡拉藏紅花

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Crocus ancyrensis subsp. ancyrensis Unknown
Crocus ancyrensis subsp. guneri Yüzb. Phytotaxa 266: 220 (2016)

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000788516
Tropicos 100173599
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:436451-1
The Plant List kew-327129
Open Tree Of Life 11800
NCBI Taxonomy 481016
NBN Atlas NHMSYS0100001153
IPNI 436451-1
iNaturalist 367202
GBIF 2747842
Freebase /m/012hpfxn
EPPO CVOAN
EOL 5868545
USDA GRIN 468575
Wikipedia Crocus_ancyrensis

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Crocus genome reveals the evolutionary origin of crocin biosynthesis Xu Z, Chen S, Wang Y, Tian Y, Wang X, Xin T, Li Z, Hua X, Tan S, Sun W, Pu X, Yao H, Gao R, Song J Acta Pharm Sin B 27-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10985130
doi:10.1016/j.apsb.2023.12.013
PMID:38572115
An Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Taşköprü (Kastamonu–Turkey) Senkardes I, Dogan A, Emre G Front Pharmacol 20-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9630845
doi:10.3389/fphar.2022.984065
PMID:36339567
Molecular Characterization, Expression Analysis of Carotenoid, Xanthophyll, Apocarotenoid Pathway Genes, and Carotenoid and Xanthophyll Accumulation in Chelidonium majus L. Sathasivam R, Yeo HJ, Park CH, Choi M, Kwon H, Sim JE, Park SU, Kim JK Plants (Basel) 23-Aug-2021
PMCID:PMC8398043
doi:10.3390/plants10081753
PMID:34451798
Prospects and progress on crocin biosynthetic pathway and metabolic engineering Liu T, Yu S, Xu Z, Tan J, Wang B, Liu YG, Zhu Q Comput Struct Biotechnol J 29-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC7653203
doi:10.1016/j.csbj.2020.10.019
PMID:33209212
A review of medicinal plant of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as source in tuberculosis drug discovery Dehyab AS, Bakar MF, AlOmar MK, Sabran SF Saudi J Biol Sci 10-Jul-2020
PMCID:PMC7451596
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.07.007
PMID:32884430
Construction of Escherichia coli cell factories for crocin biosynthesis Wang W, He P, Zhao D, Ye L, Dai L, Zhang X, Sun Y, Zheng J, Bi C Microb Cell Fact 05-Jul-2019
PMCID:PMC6610952
doi:10.1186/s12934-019-1166-1
PMID:31277660
Multi-species transcriptome analyses for the regulation of crocins biosynthesis in Crocus Ahrazem O, Argandoña J, Fiore A, Rujas A, Rubio-Moraga Á, Castillo R, Gómez-Gómez L BMC Genomics 27-Apr-2019
PMCID:PMC6486981
doi:10.1186/s12864-019-5666-5
PMID:31029081
The Specialized Roles in Carotenogenesis and Apocarotenogenesis of the Phytoene Synthase Gene Family in Saffron Ahrazem O, Diretto G, Argandoña Picazo J, Fiore A, Rubio-Moraga Á, Rial C, Varela RM, Macías FA, Castillo R, Romano E, Gómez-Gómez L Front Plant Sci 04-Mar-2019
PMCID:PMC6409354
doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00249
PMID:30886624
Candidate Enzymes for Saffron Crocin Biosynthesis Are Localized in Multiple Cellular Compartments Demurtas OC, Frusciante S, Ferrante P, Diretto G, Azad NH, Pietrella M, Aprea G, Taddei AR, Romano E, Mi J, Al-Babili S, Frigerio L, Giuliano G Plant Physiol 29-May-2018
PMCID:PMC6053014
doi:10.1104/pp.17.01815
PMID:29844227
Expression and Interaction Analysis among Saffron ALDHs and Crocetin Dialdehyde Gómez-Gómez L, Pacios LF, Diaz-Perales A, Garrido-Arandia M, Argandoña J, Rubio-Moraga Á, Ahrazem O Int J Mol Sci 09-May-2018
PMCID:PMC5983644
doi:10.3390/ijms19051409
PMID:29747375
Transcriptome analysis in tissue sectors with contrasting crocins accumulation provides novel insights into apocarotenoid biosynthesis and regulation during chromoplast biogenesis Ahrazem O, Argandoña J, Fiore A, Aguado C, Luján R, Rubio-Moraga Á, Marro M, Araujo-Andrade C, Loza-Alvarez P, Diretto G, Gómez-Gómez L Sci Rep 12-Feb-2018
PMCID:PMC5809551
doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21225-z
PMID:29434251
Transcriptome-Guided Mining of Genes Involved in Crocin Biosynthesis Ji A, Jia J, Xu Z, Li Y, Bi W, Ren F, He C, Liu J, Hu K, Song J Front Plant Sci 11-Apr-2017
PMCID:PMC5387100
doi:10.3389/fpls.2017.00518
PMID:28443112
Structural characterization of highly glucosylated crocins and regulation of their biosynthesis during flower development in Crocus Ahrazem O, Rubio-Moraga A, Jimeno ML, Gómez-Gómez L Front Plant Sci 04-Nov-2015
PMCID:PMC4632010
doi:10.3389/fpls.2015.00971
PMID:26582258
The social context of wild leafy vegetables uses in Shiri, Daghestan Kaliszewska I, Kołodziejska-Degórska I J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 11-Aug-2015
PMCID:PMC4542102
doi:10.1186/s13002-015-0047-x
PMID:26260575
Crocins with High Levels of Sugar Conjugation Contribute to the Yellow Colours of Early-Spring Flowering Crocus Tepals Rubio Moraga A, Ahrazem O, Rambla JL, Granell A, Gómez Gómez L PLoS One 13-Sep-2013
PMCID:PMC3772802
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071946
PMID:24058441

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