Crotalaria juncea is generally considered to have originated in India, where it has been cultivated since prehistoric times, but is now widely grown throughout the tropics and subtropics.
Due to the shade of its dense canopy it is also used as a cover crop to suppress weed populations.
The presence of pyrrolizidine alkaloids is typical of the genus Crotalaria.
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Crotalaria spectabilis Roth occures in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
View 236 genera in Fabaceae, 57 species in Crotalaria
Some of the Crotalaria species could be used as new crop for nematode control and nitrogen fixation.
An assessment of genetic diversity of the Crotalaria germplasm is lacking.
Some amplicons from Crotalaria were sequenced and their sequences showed a high homology (with 89% sequence identity) to Medicago truncatula from which the EST-SSR primers were designed however, the simple sequence repeat (SSR) was completely deleted in Crotalaria.
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Influence of temperature and relative humidity on the control of showy crotalaria (Crotalaria spectabilis Roth.) with Acifluorfen (Blazer and Tackle) (Technical...
Crotalaria, a new legume for the South (Circular / United States Department of Agriculture) (Circular / United States Department of Agriculture) by Roland McKee (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1931)
Crotalaria seed morphology, anatomy, and identification (Technical bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture) (Technical bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture) by Robert H Miller (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1967)