The Role of Crop Wild Relatives and Landraces of Forage Legumes in Pre-Breeding as a Response to Climate Change

K Perić, T Čupić, G Krizmanić, B Tokić, L Andrić… - Agronomy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Climate change and the variable extreme weather conditions that today's agricultural
producers are dealing with represent some of the most important issues in food production …

Targeting imidazole-glycerol phosphate dehydratase in plants: novel approach for structural and functional studies, and inhibitor blueprinting

W Witek, J Sliwiak, M Rawski… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The histidine biosynthetic pathway (HBP) is targeted for herbicide design with preliminary
success only regarding imidazole-glycerol phosphate dehydratase (IGPD, EC 4.2. 1.19), or …

The chromosome‐level assembly of the wild diploid alfalfa genome provides insights into the full landscape of genomic variations between cultivated and wild alfalfa

K Shi, H Dong, H Du, Y Li, L Zhou… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is one of the most important forage legumes in the world,
including autotetraploid (M. sativa ssp. sativa) and diploid alfalfa (M. sativa ssp. caerulea …

Phenotypic Diversity and Productivity of Medicago sativa Subspecies from Drought-Prone Environments in Mediterranean Type Climates

L Inostroza, S Espinoza, V Barahona, M Gerding… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
The phenotypic diversity and productivity of a diverse alfalfa (M. sativa subspp.) panel of
cultivars, landraces and wild relatives with putative drought tolerance were evaluated in two …

The origin, evolution, and genetic diversity of Alfalfa

Z Wang, M Şakiroğlu - The Alfalfa Genome, 2021 - Springer
Alfalfa is one of the earliest domesticated forage crops that played an important economic
and cultural role in the history. Cultivated alfalfa (Medicago sativa ssp. sativa) is a perennial …

Population genomics of perennial temperate forage legumes

M Şakiroğlu - 2021 - Springer
Temperate forage legumes are essential components of agricultural systems around the
globe with a notable economic value. Being perennials with developed root systems, forage …

Review of Partial Hybrids between Herbaceous Medicago sativa and Woody Medicago arborea and Their Potential Role in Alfalfa Improvement

J Irwin, E Bingham - Applied Biosciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Partial hybrids between Medicago sativa (alfalfa) and Medicago arborea,
named Alborea, are the result of reproductive abnormalities in the M. sativa seed parent …

Genetic determinism of seed production in alfalfa used as living mulch

MA Guacaneme Moreno - 2024 - riunet.upv.es
[EN] This study investigates the genetic determinants of seed production in alfalfa (\textit
{Medicago sativa}) utilized as living mulch, in the context of agroecological transition …

Deciphering Species Relationships Between the Wild and Cultivated Species of Genus Medicago Based on Seed Protein Profiles

VR Rajpal, A Singh, A Kumar, S Sharma… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - Springer
The genus Medicago belongs to family Fabaceae and is comprised of around 87 wild and
cultivated species. It includes M. sativa, commonly known as alfalfa or lucerne, the world's …