Setaria viridis in Genus Setaria

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Internal ID	UUID644032a7d9dc6466238358
Scientific name	Setaria viridis
Authority	(L.) P.Beauv.
First published in	Ess. Agrostogr. : 51 (1812)

Ethnobotanical Use Top

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Important notice

Content in this section summarizes historical and cultural records. It is not medical advice.
Do not use plants for self-treatment. Safety, efficacy, and appropriate use are not established here.
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Based on published ethnobotanical records, traditional infusions, decoctions, or other potable preparations of *Setaria viridis* (green foxtail) **are not documented**. While it is widely utilized as a grain, fodder, or emergency food source, and seedlings are sometimes consumed as a cooked green vegetable in parts of East Asia (e.g., Li & Cheng, 2010; Tanaka, 1976), reliable sources do not record it being used to make teas, tinctures, or similar medicinal beverages. Therefore, no information is available for the requested description.

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Common products:
Seeds are used for research; no established commercial food or industrial products are reported.

Industrial and craft applications:
No documented industrial or craft applications are reported.

Food and beverages (non-medicinal):
No documented culinary uses are reported.

Colorants and tanning:
No documented dye or tannin uses are reported.

Wood and fiber:
No documented timber or fiber products are reported.

Fragrance and cosmetics:
No documented fragrance or cosmetic uses are reported.

Properties relevant to use:
C4 photosynthesis; small stature (~10–15 cm mature plants); short life cycle (6–8 weeks seed-to-seed under optimal greenhouse conditions); continuous seed production; transformable by Agrobacterium and biolistics; produces many genetically uniform seeds.

Scientific/model-organism use:
Setaria viridis is widely used as a model system for functional genomics and developmental, physiological, and ecological research. It is the reference species for C4 photosynthesis studies and comparisons with C3 relatives, facilitating trait dissection (e.g., leaf anatomy, carbon concentrating mechanisms, water-use efficiency). Its compact size, short generation time, and prolific seed production enable large-scale phenotyping, mutant screens, transgenics, and CRISPR-based genome editing. Published mutant and transgenic lines are available through community repositories; publicly accessible genome and transcriptomic datasets support forward/reverse genetics and comparative analyses. The species has been incorporated into DOE-supported projects as a model for bioenergy-relevant traits (e.g., biomass allocation, drought tolerance) and into academic training and outreach for experimental plant biology.

Standards and regulation:
No standard or regulatory frameworks are applicable to non-commercial uses.

Sustainability and sourcing:
Sourcing is via standard horticultural/growth-chamber propagation; no specific sustainability considerations apply beyond general best practices for laboratory model organisms.

Synonyms Top

Scientific name	Authority	First published in
Chaetochloa comosa	Koidz.	Fl. Symb. Orient.-Asiat. : 51 (1930)
Chaetochloa gigantea	Honda	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 38: 199 (1924)
Chaetochloa gigantea var. furcata	Honda	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 38: 200. 1924
Chaetochloa gigantea var. pilosa	Honda	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 38: 199. 1924
Chaetochloa viridis	(L.) Scribn.	Bull. Div. Agrostol. U.S.D.A. 4: 39 (1897)
Chaetochloa viridis var. breviseta	Farw.	Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 1: 86 (1923)
Chaetochloa viridis var. japonica	Koidz.	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 39: 302. 1925
Chaetochloa viridis var. major	(Gaudin) Farw.	Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 1: 86 (1923)
Chaetochloa viridis var. minor	Farw.	Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 1: 86 (1923)
Chaetochloa viridis var. pachystachys	(Franch. & Sav.) Honda	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 38: 198. 1924
Chaetochloa viridis var. weinmannii	House	Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 243-244: 39 (1923)
Chamaeraphis italica var. viridis	(L.) Kuntze	Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 767 (1891)
Chamaeraphis viridis	Millsp.	Prelim. Cat. Fl. W. Virginia : 466 (1892)
Ixophorus viridis	(L.) Nash	Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 423 (1895)
Panicum bicolor	Moench	Methodus : 206 (1794)
Panicum comosum	Steud.	Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1(6): 417. 1854 [1855 publ. 28-29 Nov 1854]
Panicum giganteum	E.H.L.Krause	Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 29(2): 142 (1912)
Panicum humile	Thunb. ex Trin.	Gram. Panic. : 164 (1826)
Panicum italicum var. viride	(L.) Körn.	Handb. Getreidebaus 1: 277. 1885
Panicum laevigatum	Lam.	Fl. Franç. 3: 578 (1779)
Panicum pachystachys	Franch. & Sav.	Enum. Pl. Jap. 2: 594 (1878)
Panicum psilocaulon	Steud.	Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 50 (1853)
Panicum purpurascens	Opiz	Flora 5: 266 (1822)
Panicum pycnocomum	Steud.	Syn. Pl. Glumac. [Steudel] 1: 462. 1854 (1854)
Panicum quale-linnaei	Krock.	Fl. Siles. 1: 88 (1787)
Panicum reclinatum	Vill.	Hist. Pl. Dauphiné 2: 64 (1787)
Panicum verticillatum var. minus	Thunb.	Fl. Jap. 46. 1784
Panicum viride	L.	Syst. Nat. ed. 10 , 2: 870 (1759)
Panicum viride f. pygmaeum	Asch. & Graebn.	Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 2(1): 77 1899
Panicum viride var. brevisetum	Döll	Rhein. Fl. : 128 (1843)
Panicum viride var. giganteum	Franch. & Sav.	Enum. Pl. Jap. 2: 162. 1877
Panicum viride var. majus	Gaudin	Agrost. Helv. 1: 18 (1811)
Panicum viride var. viviparum	Bertol.	Fl. Ital. 1: 421. 1834
Panicum viride var. weinmannii	(Roem. & Schult.) Asch. & Graebn.	Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 2(1): 77. 1899
Panicum viridescens	Steud.	Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 51 (1853)
Pennisetum italicum var. viride	(L.) Körn.	Handb. Getreidebaus 1: 227. 1885
Pennisetum viride	(L.) R.Br.	Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. : 195 (1810)
Pennisetum viride var. brevisetum	Döll	Rhein. Fl. 128 1843
Setaria arenaria	Kitag.	Rep. Inst. Sci. Res. Manchoukuo 4: 77 (1940)
Setaria chlorantha	Schur	Enum. Pl. Transsilv. : 723 (1866)
Setaria comosa	Miq.	Fl. Ned. Ind. 3: 468 (1857)
Setaria comosa var. pilosa	(Honda) Honda	J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 3: 440 1930
Setaria depressa	Honda	Rep. Exped. Manchoukuo Sect. IV 2: 11 (1935)
Setaria fallax	Lojac.	Fl. Sicul. 3: 365 (1909)
Setaria gigantea	Makino	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 25: 227 (1911)
Setaria gigantea var. pilosa	(Honda) Makino & Nemoto	Fl. Japan 1498 1925
Setaria glareosa	Petrov	Fl. Iakut. 1: 118 (1930)
Setaria italica subsp. pycnocoma	(Steud.) De Wet	Kulturpflanze 29: 190 (1981)
Setaria italica subsp. viridis	(L.) Thell.	Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg , sér. 4, 38: 85 (1912)
Setaria italica var. major	(Gaudich.) Ohwi	Acta Phytoecol. Geobot. Sin. 11: 51 1952
Setaria ketzchovelii	Menabde & Erizin	Trudy Tbilissk. Bot. Inst. 11: 196. 1947 (1947)
Setaria nana	Dumort.	Observ. Gramin. Belg. : 139 (1824)
Setaria pachystachys	(Franch. & Sav.) Matsum.	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 11: 443. 1897 (1897)
Setaria pachystachys var. lanceolata	Matsum.	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 11: 443. 1897
Setaria purpurascens	(Opiz) Opiz	Böhm. Phan. Crypt. Gew. 12 1823
Setaria pycnocoma	(Steud.) Henrard ex Nakai	J. Jap. Bot. 15: 393 (1939)
Setaria reclinata	Chevall.	Fl. Gén. Env. Paris , ed. 2, 2: 148 (1836)
Setaria rubicunda	Dumort.	Observ. Gramin. Belg. : 139 (1824)
Setaria viridis f. arenosa	(Schur) Morariu	Fl. Republ. Socialist. România 12: 78 (1972)
Setaria viridis f. japonica	(Koidz.) Ohwi	Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 11: 52 1942
Setaria viridis f. maxima	Matsum.	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 11: 443 1897
Setaria viridis f. nana	Honda	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 46: 421 1932
Setaria viridis f. pygmaea	(Asch. & Graebn.) Junge	Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anst. 30(Beih. 3): 142 1913
Setaria viridis subsp. glareosa	(V.Petrov) Peschkova	Fl. Sibir. 2: 241 (1990)
Setaria viridis subsp. minor	(Thunberg) T.Koyama	Grass. Japan : 529 (1987)
Setaria viridis subsp. nana	(Dumort.) Dumort.	Observ. Gramin. Belg. 139. 1824 (1824)
Setaria viridis subsp. pachystachys	Masam. & Yanagih.	Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Taiwan 31: 327. 1941
Setaria viridis subsp. purpurascens	(Maxim.) Peschkova	Fl. Sibir. 2: 241 (1990)
Setaria viridis subsp. pycnocoma	(Steud.) Tzvelev	Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 5: 19. 1968 (1968)
Setaria viridis subsp. weinmanii	(Roem. & Schult.) Tzvelev	Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 32: 183 (2000)
Setaria viridis var. arenosa	Schur	Enum. Pl. Transsilv. 723 1866
Setaria viridis var. breviseta	Hitchc.	Rhodora 8: 210 (1906)
Setaria viridis var. crypsoides	Touss. & Hoschedé	Bull. Soc. Amis Sci. Nat. Rouen sér. 4, 33: 270. 1898
Setaria viridis var. gigantea	(Franch. & Sav.) Matsum.	Cat. Pl. Herb. Sci. Coll. Univ. Tokyo 225 1886
Setaria viridis var. japonica	(Koidz.) Honda	J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 3: 240 1930
Setaria viridis var. major	Gray	Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 157 (1821 publ. 1822)
Setaria viridis var. maritima	Hara	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 52: 287. 1938
Setaria viridis var. minor	Koch	Syn. Deut. Schweiz. Fl. : 773 (1837)
Setaria viridis var. pachystachys	(Franch. & Sav.) Masamura & Yanagih.	Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Taiwan 31: 327 1941
Setaria viridis var. pilosa	Hara	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 52: 287. 1938
Setaria viridis var. purpurascens	Maxim.	Prim. Fl. Amur. 330 1859
Setaria viridis var. robusta-alba	M.M.Schreiber	Weed Sci. 19: 424 (1971)
Setaria viridis var. robusta-purpurea	M.M.Schreiber	Weed Sci. 19: 425 (1971)
Setaria viridis var. vivipara	(Bertol.) Parl.	Fl. Ital. 1: 112 1850
Setaria viridis var. weinmannii	(Roem. & Schult.) Borbás	Mat. Term. Közlem. 15: 310 1878
Setaria weinmannii	Roem. & Schult.	Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 490 (1817)
Setariopsis viridis	(L.) Samp.	Herb. Port. , Apend 2: 4 (1914)
Setaria viridis var. purpurascens	Peterm.	Fl. Lips. Excurs. 77 1838
Setaria viridis var. robusto-alba	M.Schreib.	Weed Sci. 19(4): 424 1971
Setaria viridis var. robusto-purpurea	M.Schreib.	Weed Sci. 19(4): 425 1971
Setaria viridis var. sinica	Ohwi	J. Jap. Bot. 18(9): 541 1942
Setaria italica var. maritima	(Lam.) Podp.	Kvetena Moravy (Prace Marav. Prir. Spolc.) 6: 482 1926
Chaetochloa viridis var. depressa	(Honda) Kitag.	Rep. Inst. Sci. Res. Manchoukuo 3(App. 1): 93 1939
Setaria viridis var. depressa	(Honda) Kitag.	Rep. Inst. Sci. Res. Manchoukuo App. 1: 93. 1939
Setaria viridis f. nana	(Dumort.) de Lesd.	Publ. Soc. Dunk. 1934: 17 1934
Setaria viridis var. reclinata	(Vill) Bréb.	Fl. Normandie (ed. 2) 301 1849
Panicum viride var. reclinatum	(Vill) Asch. & Graebn.	Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 2: 77 1899
Setaria maximowiczii	Tzvelev & Prob.	Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 44: 10 (2013)
Setaria ketzchovelii	Menabde & Eritsian
Setaria viridis var. pachystachys	(Franch. & Sav.) Makino & Nemoto	Fl. Japan 1499 1925
Setaria viridis var. weinmannii	(Roem. & Schult.) Heynh.	Nom. Bot. Hort. : 751 (1840)
Setaria italica var. pachystachys	(Franch. & Sav.) B.Bock	Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest 43: 216 (2012)
Setaria italica subsp. weinmannii	(Roem. & Schult.) B.Bock	Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest 43: 220 (2012)
Panicum viride var. semiaristatum	Pauquy	Statist. Bot. Somme : 435 (1831)
Panicum viride var. aristatum	Pauquy	Statist. Bot. Somme : 435 (1831)
Panicum viride var. longisetum	Döll	Rhein. Fl. : 128 (1843)
Panicum viride var. rubicundum	(Dumort.) Lej.	Rev. Fl. Spa : 217 (1825)
Panicum viride var. triangulare	Pauquy	Statist. Bot. Somme : 435 (1831)
Panicum viride var. humifusum	Lej. & Courtois	Comp. Fl. Belg. 1: 52 (1828)
Panicum viride var. nanum	Lej. & Courtois	Comp. Fl. Belg. 1: 52 (1828)
Panicum viride var. gracillimum	Le Gall	Fl. Morbihan : 677 (1852)
Setaria viridis var. prostrata	Albert	Cat. Pl. Vasc. Var : 522 (1908)
Setaria viridis var. declinata	F.Gérard	Bull. Soc. Bot. Rochelaise 19: 42 (1897 publ. 1898)
Setaria viridis var. nodiflora	Sacc.	Acta Ist. Venet. 1864: 865 (1865)
Setaria viridis var. ramosa	Goiran	Gram. Nice : 11 (1910)
Setaria viridis var. laevigata	Schur	Enum. Pl. Transsilv. : 723 (1866)
Setaria viridis var. stenostachya	Merino	Fl. Galicia 3: 233 (1909)
Setaria viridis var. secunda	Beck	Fl. Nieder-Österreich : 46 (1890)
Setaria viridis var. brevifolia	Honda	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 53: 99 (1939)
Setaria italica var. maior	(Gaudin) Ohwi	Acta Phytoecol. Geobot. Sin. 11: 51 (1952)
Setaria italica var. rubicunda	(Dumort.) Koltz	Prodr. Fl. Grand-Duché Luxemb. : 184 (1873)
Setaria viridis var. colorata	Martrin-Donos	Fl. Tarn : 781 (1864)
Setaria viridis var. recta	F.Gérard	Bull. Soc. Bot. Rochelaise 19: 42 (1897 publ. 1898)
Chaetochloa viridis subvar. lanceolata	(Matsum.) Honda	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 38: 198 (1924)
Chaetochloa viridis subvar. linearis	Honda	Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 38: 198 (1924)
Setaria viridis f. misera	Honda	J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 3: 243 (1930)
Setaria viridis subvar. lanceolata	(Matsum.) Makino & Nemoto	Fl. Japan : 1499 (1925)
Setaria viridis subvar. linearis	(Honda) Makino & Nemoto	Fl. Japan : 1499 (1925)
Setaria viridis subvar. rufescens	Honda	J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 3: 242 (1930)
Setaria viridis var. maior	(Gaudin) Peterm.	Fl. Lips. Excurs. : 77 (1838)
Setaria viridis var. angustifolia	Y.N.Lee	J. Jap. Bot. 40: 370 (1965)
Panicum comosum	Steud.	Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 53 (1853)

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Language	Common/alternative name
English	green bristlegrass
English	green bristle-grass
English	green foxtail millet
English	green foxtail
English	green bristol-grass
Arabic	ذيل الثعلب الأخضر
Belarusian	прада
Belarusian	мяшэй
Belarusian	Мяшэй зялёны
cdo	kēng-muōi-chāu
Czech	bér zelený
Welsh	cibogwellt gwyrddlas
German	grüne borstenhirse
German	grüner fennich
Estonian	roheline kukeleib
Persian	گاورس
Finnish	viherpantaheinä
French	sétaire verte
Upper Sorbian	zeleny włosanc
Japanese	ねこじゃらし
Japanese	ネコジャラシ
Japanese	狗尾草
Japanese	猫じゃらし
Japanese	エノコログサ
Georgian	მწვანე ძურწა
Korean	개꼬리풀
Korean	강아지풀
Macedonian	зелен мувар
mn	Ногоон хоног будаа
Norwegian Bokmål	grønnbusthirse
Norwegian Bokmål	grønn busthirse
Dutch	groene naaldaar
Norwegian Nynorsk	grøn busthirse
Norwegian Nynorsk	grønbusthirse
Polish	włośnica zielona
Romanian	mohor verde
Russian	щетинник Вайнмана
Russian	чумиза зелёная
Russian	мышей зелёный
Russian	щетинник зелёный
Slovak	bar zelený
Slovenian	zeleni muhvič
Swedish	kavelhirs
Chinese	谷莠子
Chinese	狗尾草子
Chinese	狗尾巴草
Chinese	通天草
Chinese	狗尾草
Chinese	莠

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Name	Authority	First published in
Setaria viridis var. pygmaea	(Asch. & Graebn.) B.Fedtsch.	Izv. Imp. Bot. Sada Petra Velikago 14(Suppl. 2): 46 1915

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Database	ID/link to page
World Flora Online	wfo-0000899679
Florida Plant Atlas	1790
Canadensys	7954
USDA Plants	SEVI4
Tropicos	25509967
KEW	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1171009-2
The Plant List	kew-442790
Open Tree Of Life	552997
NCBI Taxonomy	4556
NBN Atlas	NHMSYS0000463485
Nature Serve	2.129423
IPNI	1171009-2
iNaturalist	79070
GBIF	5289684
Freebase	/m/0cnysrk
WisFlora	5035
EPPO	SETVI
EOL	1114660
Elurikkus	7256
Calflora (Californian flora)	7540
USDA GRIN	33853
Wikipedia	Setaria_viridis
Plantarium	35554

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Accession	Assembly
Accession	Name	Level	Submitter	Released	Coverage	Size
GCF_005286985.2	Setaria_viridis_v4.0	Chromosome	DOE Joint Genome Institute	2024-04-23	87.6	378.87 Mb

Scientific Literature Top

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Stable, fluorescent markers for tracking synthetic communities and assembly dynamics

Jorrin B, Haskett TL, Knights HE, Martyn A, Underwood TJ, Dolliver J, Ledermann R, Poole PS

Microbiome

07-May-2024

PMCID:	PMC11075435
doi:	10.1186/s40168-024-01792-2
PMID:	38715147

Unveiling allelopathic dynamics and impacts of invasive Erigeron bonariensis and Bidens pilosa on plant communities and soil parameters

Balah MA, Al-Andal A, Radwan AM, Donia AE

Sci Rep

03-May-2024

PMCID:	PMC11065986
doi:	10.1038/s41598-024-57552-7
PMID:	38698043

Analysis of small-scale soil CO2 fluxes in an orange orchard under irrigation and soil conservative practices

Guarrera S, Vanella D, Consoli S, Giudice G, Toscano S, Ramírez-Cuesta JM, Milani M, Ferlito F, Longo D

Heliyon

30-Apr-2024

PMCID:	PMC11079320
doi:	10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30543
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Nature

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Name	PubChem ID	Canonical SMILES	MW	Found in	Proof
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Sesquiterpenoids / Abscisic acids and derivatives
(4E)-5-[(1S)-1-hydroxy-2,6,6-trimethyl-4-oxocyclohex-2-en-1-yl]-3-methylpenta-2,4-dienoic acid	131954763	Click to see	264.32	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1626/JCS.40.34
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Steroids and steroid derivatives / Ergostane steroids / Ergosterols and derivatives
(24R)-5-Ergosten-3beta-ol	312822	Click to see	400.70	unknown	https://doi.org/10.5650/JOS1996.49.727
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Steroids and steroid derivatives / Stigmastanes and derivatives
17-(5-ethyl-6-methylheptan-2-yl)-10,13-dimethyl-2,3,4,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,17-dodecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-ol	86821	Click to see CCC(CCC(C)C1CCC2C1(CCC3C2CC=C4C3(CCC(C4)O)C)C)C(C)C	414.70	unknown	https://doi.org/10.5650/JOS1996.49.727
Stigmasterol	5280794	Click to see	412.70	unknown	https://doi.org/10.5650/JOS1996.49.727

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