Introduction Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is the favored premium feed ingredient in animal
husbandry production which is in serious jeopardy due to soil moisture shortages. It is …

Advances in alfalfa [Medicago sativa (L.) subsp. sativa] breeding, molecular genetics, and
genomics have been slow because this crop is an allogamous autotetraploid (2n= 4x= 32) …

Alfalfa is a high-quality forage legume species that is widely cultivated at high latitudes
worldwide. However, a decrease in cold tolerance in early spring seriously affects regrowth …

Abstract The Legume Information System (LIS; https://legumeinfo. org) houses genetic and
genomic data, integrated in various online tools to allow comparative genomic analyses …

For several decades, researchers are working to develop improved major crops with better
adaptability and tolerance to environmental stresses. Forage legumes have been widely …

Post-genomics era has witnessed the development of cutting-edge technologies that have
offered cost-efficient and high-throughput ways for molecular characterization of the function …

Transcription factors (TFs) are proteins that govern organismal development and response
to the environment by regulating gene expression. Information on the amount and diversity …

Abstract The Genotype-Phenotype Working Group was established in November 2021 as
part of the AgBioData Consortium (https://www. agbiodata. org) with the goal of identifying …

Legumes (Fabaceae) are unique in their ability to enter into an elaborate symbiosis with
nitrogen-fixing rhizobial bacteria. Rhizobia-legume (RL) symbiosis represents one of the …