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subterranean clover

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subterranean clover
trifoliumsubterraneum.


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Not all that dissimilar to subterranean clover, by the fact that it, too buries its own seed, the nuts.
Phytoestrogens achieved notoriety in the 1940s in Western Australia when sheep fed large quantities of subterranean clover fodder developed a reproductive abnormality called clover disease, which resulted in substantial losses in productivity--phytoestrogens in the clover were subsequently identified as the bioactive factor responsible for the reproductive abnormality.
Agricultural practices that raise the soil nitrogen content, such as pasture improvement with subterranean clover and superphosphate, and grain legume cropping, are major culprits.
 
 
 
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