Mainly due to their economic importance, genomes of 10 legumes, including soybean
(Glycine max), wild peanut (Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaensis), and barrel medic …

Abstract The Cool Season Food Legume Genome database (CSFL) is a curated and
integrated database resource for genomics, genetics, and breeding research of chickpea …

Human-mediated selection can lead to rapid evolution in very short time scales, and the
evolution of herbicide resistance in agricultural weeds is an excellent example of this …

Faba bean (Vicia faba L.), a globally important grain legume providing a stable source of
dietary protein, was one of the earliest plant cytogenetic models. However, the lack of draft …

Background Alfalfa is the most widely cultivated forage legume and one of the most
economically valuable crops in the world. The large size and complexity of the alfalfa …

Abstract Background Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is an important forage crop grown
worldwide. Alfalfa is called the “queen of forage crops” due to its high forage yield and …

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is one of the most important and widely cultivated forage crops. It
is commonly used as a vegetable and medicinal herb because of its excellent nutritional …

Medicago truncatula was proposed, about three decades ago, as a model legume to study
the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis. It has now been adopted to study a wide range of …

Leaf growth is a complex trait for which many similarities exist in different plant species,
suggesting functional conservation of the underlying pathways. However, a global view of …

Medicago truncatula will be among the first plant species to benefit from the completion of a
whole-genome sequencing project. For each of these species, Arabidopsis, rice and now …