---
taxid: 57577
genus: Trifolium
species: pratense
abbrev: tripr
commonName: red clover
description: "Red clover (Trifolium pratense) is a perennial legume species native to Northwest Africa, Europe and Western Asia. Today, red clover is found in many regions around the world including the Americas and Australia. Unlike other legume species, red clover is an outcrossing species due to a strong gametophytic incompatibility system. Red clover is a widely grown fodder legume crop and is valued for its role in increasing soil fertility by nitrogen fixation."

resources:
  - name: LIS SequenceServer
    URL: "https://sequenceserver.legumeinfo.org/"
    description: "SequenceServer BLAST against Trifolium pratense assembly v2.0"

strains:
  - identifier: MilvusB
    accession: Milvus B
    name: Milvus B
    origin: Swiss Federal Research Station of Reckenholz
    description: "Red clover cultivar Milvus B is a selection from variety Milvus used for generation of the genome assembly described by De Vega et al. (2015) DOI:10.1038/srep17394"