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Assessment of the Genetic Diversity of Different Job's Tears (Coix lacryma-jobi L.) Accessions and the Active Composition and Anticancer Effect of Its Seed Oil.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Xi Xiu-Jie, Zhu Yun-Guo, Tong Ying-Peng, Yang Xiao-Ling, Tang Nan-Nan, Ma Shu-Min, Li Shan, Cheng Zhou
Abstract excerpt
Job's tears (Coix lachryma-jobi L.) is an important crop used as food and herbal medicine in Asian countries. A drug made of Job's tears seed oil has been clinically applied to treat multiple cancers. In this study, the genetic diversity of Job's tears accessions and the fatty acid composition, triglyceride composition, and anti-proliferative effect of Job's tears seed oil were analyzed using morphological...
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