Tephrosia vogelii

Tephrosia vogelii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Millettieae
Genus: Tephrosia
Species: T. vogelii
Binomial name
Tephrosia vogelii
Hook.f.
Synonyms

Cracca vogelii (Hook. f.) Kuntze

Tephrosia vogelii, the fish-poison-bean or Vogel tephrosia (English), tefrósia (Portuguese) or barbasco guineano (Spanish), is a flowering plant species in the genus Tephrosia.[1]

The two rotenoids deguelin and tephrosin can be found in T. vogelii.[2]

T. vogelii forms root nodules with Sinorhizobium fredii.

References

  1. ^ "GRIN Species Records of Tephrosia vogelii". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?80185. Retrieved 2010-11-29. 
  2. ^ Production of rotenoids by heterotrophic and photomixotrophic cell cultures of tephrosia vogelii. Nadine Lambert, Marie-France Trouslot, Claudine Nef-Campa and Hervé Chrestin, Phytochemistry, Volume 34, Issue 6, December 1993, Pages 1515-1520, doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)90838-0

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