Grain amaranths (Amaranthus spp.) have been cultivated for thousands of years in Central
and South America. Their grains are of high nutritional value, but the low yield needs to be …

Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient for symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legume nodules,
where it is required for the activity of bacterial nitrogenase, plant leghemoglobin, respiratory …

Medicago truncatula was chosen by the legume community, along with Lotus japonicus, as
a model plant to study legume biology. Since then, numerous resources and tools have …

Abstract Background Structural variants (SVs) constitute a large proportion of the genomic
variation that results in phenotypic variation in plants. However, they are still a largely …

Changing climates and associated increased variability pose risks to alfalfa (Medicago
sativa L.) cultivation, with the requirement to establish, survive, and maintain production …

Kersting's groundnut [Macrotyloma geocarpum (Harms.) Maréchal and Baudet], Fabaceae,
is an important source of protein and essential amino acids. As a grain legume species, it …

Legumes house nitrogen-fixing endosymbiotic rhizobia in specialized polyploid cells within
root nodules, which undergo tightly regulated metabolic activity. By carrying out expression …

Background In the model legume Medicago truncatula, the near saturation genome-wide
Tnt1 insertion mutant population in ecotype R108 is a valuable tool in functional genomics …

The unique evolutionary adaptation of legumes for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis leading to
nodulation is tightly regulated by the host plant. The autoregulation of nodulation (AON) …

Highly expressed genes in any species differ in the usage frequency of synonymous
codons. The relative recurrence of an event of the favored codon pair (amino acid pairs) …