Proteome analysis is becoming a powerful tool in the functional characterization of plants.
Due to the availability of vast nucleotide sequence information and based on the progress …

Plant sugar will eventually be exported transporter (SWEET) sugar transporters have been
implicated in various developmental processes where sugar efflux is essential, including …

Medicago truncatula is a fast‐emerging model for the study of legume functional biology. We
used the tobacco retrotransposon Tnt1 to tag the Medicago genome and generated over …

Best known as an animal feed, Alfalfa Medicago sativa is one of the most important and
widely produced livestock crops grown throughout the temperate world." Alfalfa and …

We have cloned a SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS RECEPTOR KINASE (SERK) gene from
Medicago truncatula (MtSERK1) and examined its expression in culture using real time …

Faba beans are adversely affected by numerous fungal diseases leading to a steady
reduction in the cultivated area in many countries. Major diseases such as Ascochyta blight …

Abstract Background The legume Medicago truncatula has emerged as a model plant for the
molecular and genetic dissection of various plant processes involved in rhizobial …

Abstract Model plants are facilitating the genetic characterization and comparative mapping
of a number of traditional crops. Medicago truncatula has been widely accepted as a model …

We report on a large‐scale expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing and analysis
program aimed at characterizing the sets of genes expressed in roots of the model legume …

Legumes are second only to grasses in worldwide economic importance, and
understanding their molecular genetics is vital to the breeding of important grain and forage …