Setaria viridis

TaxID: 4556

Basic Information

Setaria viridis

Bristlegrass, Foxtail, Green Bristlegrass

Setaria viridis is a species of grass known by many common names, including green foxtail, green bristlegrass, and wild foxtail millet. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Setaria italica. It is native to Eurasia, but it is known on most continents as an introduced species and is closely related to Setaria faberi, a noxious weed. It is a hardy grass which grows in many types of urban, cultivated, and disturbed habitat, including vacant lots, sidewalks, railroads, lawns, and at the margins of fields. It is the wild antecedent of the crop foxtail millet. This is an annual grass with decumbent or erect stems growing up to a meter long, and known to reach two meters or more at times. The leaf blades are up to 40 centimeters long and 2.5 wide and glabrous. The inflorescence is a dense, compact, spikelike panicle up to 20 centimeters long, growing erect or sometimes nodding at the tip only. Spikelets are 1.8 C2.2 mm long. Each is subtended by up to three stiff bristles. Its fertile lemmas are finely cross-wrinkled. Setaria viridis is often confused with S. faberi, (Chinese or Giant Foxtail), which has sparse, soft hairs on the leaves and a nodding inflorescence. Setaria viridis is closely related to S. italica (Foxtail Millet), which has larger spikelets about 3 mm long and usually smooth, shiny upper lemmas. Foxtail Millet was cultivated in China by 2700 BC and during the Stone Age in Europe. Setaria viridis has been proposed as a model to study C4 photosynthesis and related bioenergy grasses. It has a short life cycle (6 C8 weeks), is transformable and is currently being sequenced. Genetic resources are currently being developed by a number of groups. A method to break the prolonged seed dormancy has been discovered recently and all these could contribute towards making S. viridis a choice monocot genetic model system.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Poales

Poaceae

Setaria

viridis

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) eugenezakharov@BY-NC
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(c) Thomas Gyselinck@BY
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(c) Don Sutherland@BY-NC
Setaria viridis
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(c) Thomas Gyselinck@BY

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 (3 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Ecuador Quarantine pests —
Guatemala Absent —
Jordan A2 list 2013

Distribution (98 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Afghanistan Present —
Albania Present —
Algeria Present —
Andorra Present —
Argentina Present —
Armenia Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCF_005286985.2 Chromosome 397 21048 21048 0.992034316%

Transcriptomes (6 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR34514723 Leaf Seedling not collected 23817974 not collected
SRR34514722 Leaf Seedling not collected 23790870 not collected
SRR34514721 Leaf Seedling not collected 23817974 not collected
SRR37016237 - - - 25545708 missing
SRR37016236 - - - 33439770 missing
SRR37016268 - - - 31621796 missing

DNA Barcodes (62 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
WAT155-12 - rbcLa 553 Canada 2007-07-24 -
WAT155-12 - ITS2 342 Canada 2007-07-24 -
WAT117-12 - rbcLa 553 Canada 2007-07-18 -
WAT117-12 - ITS2 342 Canada 2007-07-18 -
WAT105-12 - rbcLa 553 Canada 2006-08-31 -
WAT105-12 - ITS2 342 Canada 2006-08-31 -
WAT079-12 - rbcLa 553 Canada 2007-08-08 -
WAT079-12 - ITS2 342 Canada 2007-08-08 -
VEMSH251-13 - matK 773 Canada 2012-06-28 45.535, -73.149
SDH3004-15 - rbcLa 552 United States 2010-08-04 33.28186, -116.6175
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Literature