Coix lacryma-jobi

TaxID: 4505

Basic Information

Coix lacryma-jobi

Adlay, Job's Tears, Job's tears

Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi), also known as adlay or adlay millet, is a tall grain-bearing perennial tropical plant of the family Poaceae (grass family). It is native to Southeast Asia and introduced to Northern China and India in remote antiquity, and elsewhere cultivated in gardens as an annual. It has been naturalized in the southern United States and the New World tropics. In its native environment it is grown at higher elevation areas where rice and corn do not grow well. Job's tears are also commonly sold as Chinese pearl barley, though true barley belongs to a completely different genus. There are two main varieties of the species, one wild and one cultivated. The wild variety, Coix lacryma-jobi var. lacryma-jobi, has hard-shelled pseudocarps very hard, pearly white, oval structures used as beads for making prayer beads or rosaries, necklaces, and other objects. The cultivated variety Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen is harvested as a cereal crop, has a soft shell, and is used in traditional medicine in parts of Asia.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Poales

Poaceae

Coix

lacryma-jobi

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Coix lacryma-jobi
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(c) Gareth Preiss@BY-NC
Coix lacryma-jobi
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(c) Gail Bowers-Winters@BY-NC
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(c) Robert Johnson@BY-NC
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(c) biobank-lantauhk@BY-NC
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(c) unknown@CC0

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
French Polynesia Present —

Distribution (111 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Country Status State
Angola Present —
Argentina Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Burundi Present —
Belgium Present —
Benin Present —
Bangladesh Present —
Belarus Present —
Belize Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR34941160 root All internodes fully extended - 24066119 missing
SRR34941159 root All internodes fully extended - 22834708 missing
SRR34941158 root All internodes fully extended - 22514282 missing

DNA Barcodes (24 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
MHPAD3278-10 - rbcLa 552 Costa Rica 2010-03-12 10.904, -85.303
MHPAD3277-10 - rbcLa 552 Costa Rica 2010-03-12 10.904, -85.303
MHPAD3276-10 - matK 595 Costa Rica 2010-03-12 10.904, -85.303
MHPAD3275-10 - rbcLa 552 Costa Rica 2010-03-12 10.904, -85.303
MHPAD3274-10 - rbcLa 552 Costa Rica 2010-03-12 10.904, -85.303
GENG262-14 - rbcL 561 India 2014-01-06 21.294, 72.958
GBVX1883-13 - rbcL 1428 - - -
GBVR4843-13 - matK 1545 - - -
GBVR2899-13 - rbcL 1374 - - -
GBVD3217-11 - rbcL 1374 - - -
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Literature