Urochloa fusca

Urochloa fusca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Genus: Urochloa
Species: U. fusca
Binomial name
Urochloa fusca
B.F. Hansen & Wunderlin
Synonyms

Brachiaria fasciculata
Panicum fasciculatum
Urochloa fasciculata

Urochloa fusca (common name: browntop signalgrass)[1] is a wild grass species with a native range extending from Paraguay in South America to the southern United States (Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma),[2][3] and it is now found as a weed in Australia.[2][4] The species is diploid, with a base chromosome number of 9,[5] and utilizes the PCK enzymatic subtype of C4 photosynthesis. Based on a molecular phylogeny of the genus Urochloa, the closest relatives of U. fusca are Urochloa arizonica and Urochloa mollis[6] The genome of U. fusca is currently being sequenced by the Joint Genome Institute.[7][8]

Ecology

Prefers moist and the disturbed areas at low elevations.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Urochloa fusca". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  2. 1 2 http://grassworld.myspecies.info/en/content/urochloa-fusca
  3. ↑ https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=URFU2
  4. 1 2 http://herbarium.usu.edu/treatments/Urochloa.htm
  5. ↑ Osvaldo Morrone, Alejandro Escobar, and Fernando O. Zuloaga, Chromosome Studies in American Panicoideae (POACEAE) Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 2006 93 (4), 647-657
  6. ↑ Diego L. Salariato, Fernando O. Zuloaga, Liliana M. Giussani, Osvaldo Morrone, Molecular phylogeny of the subtribe Melinidinae (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) and evolutionary trends in the homogenization of inflorescences, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 56, Issue 1, July 2010, Pages 355-369, ISSN 1055-7903
  7. ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/234780
  8. ↑ https://gold.jgi-psf.org/project?id=Gp0050856


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