From Legume Information System
General information about legumes
Beans
Bean article at Wikipedia. Includes a list of food legumes: approximately eighteen genera and twenty-eight species. Also sections on toxins, production, cultural aspects.
Legumes
Legume article at Wikipedia. Brief nontechnical overview of the legume family and some characteristics and uses.
Rhizobia
Rhizobia article at Wikipedia.
Rhizobium germplasm (USDA ARS). USDA ARS National Rhizobium Germplasm Collection.
Pulses
Pulses article at Wikipedia. Includes the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) classification of eleven primary pulse types and approximately twenty-six species within those types.
Legume diseases
List of common bean diseases, article at Wikipedia.
Legume species
Adzuki bean − Vigna angularis
Azuki bean article at Wikipedia.
Alfalfa − Medicago sativa
Barrel medic − Medicago truncatula
Broad bean − Vicia faba
Broad bean article at Wikipedia.
Chickpea − Cicer arietinum
Chickpea article at Wikipedia.
Common bean − Phaseolus vulgaris
Common bean article at Wikipedia. Describes broad classes of beans, antinutritional factors, and numerous varieties of green (shell) and dry beans.
Lentil − Lens culinaris
Lentil article at Wikipedia.
Lotus japonicus
Lupin − Lupinus
Lupin article at Wikipedia.
Lupins as a potential crop in Finland
Online book: Lupins (Geography, classification, genetic resources and breeding)
lupins.org. Information portal for lupins, specializing in production in Australia.
Lupinus mutabilis article at Wikipedia.
Mung bean − Vigna radiata
Mung bean article at Wikipedia.
Peanut − Arachis hypogaea
Peanut article at Wikipedia.
Soybean − Glycine max
Soybean article at Wikipedia.
Sequencing the reference legumes: projects, data, databases
General and clade-based
Bean gene symbols at BeanGenes (NODAK). Characterized loci.
Grain Legumes Integrated Project
International Legume Database & Information Service
http://grainlegumes.com . European Union grain legumes research portal.
Glycine max
Lotus japonicus
Lotus japonicus genome Kazusa DNA Research Institute
Medicago truncatula
Medicago genome sequencing project
UrMeLDB Medicago genome sequencing project
Medicago annotation project JCVI
Truncatulix Bielefeld, Germany. A research platform for Medicago truncatula expression data.
Medicago truncatula Gene Expression Atlas Noble Foundation
MENS European Medicago EST Navigation System Toulouse
Medicago functional genomics VBI
Medicago TILLING Reverse Genetics UK
Medicago Affymetrix GeneChip Annotations USDA-ARS/Minnesota
Medicago functional genomics Noble Foundation
Medicago truncatula Handbook Noble Foundation
Medicago RNAi Database University of Minnesota
Phaseolus vulgaris
Bean Breeder’s Molecular Marker Toolbox at UC Davis
Culinary
Legume Chef. Interviews with chefs who use legumes; bean production in the US.
Article on dal at Wikipedia.
Miscellaneous
National Plant Germplasm System / Germplasm Resources Information Network
Generation Challenge Program (Tropical Legumes I). Generation Challenge Program
Tropical forages CIAT, FAO, others
Tropical forages: interactive selection tool CIAT, FAO, others
Missouri Botanical Garden: Fabales taxonomy Missouri Botanical Garden
Palaeos Fabales Palaeos.org
Legumes of the World Online project Kew
Genepool and gap analysis Detailed analysis of potential collection gaps for thirteen crop gene pools including Cajanus, Cicer, Lens, Phaseolus, Vigna, and Vicia.
Desert legume program University of Arizona
Phytozome Green plant comparative genomics.
Index to plant chromosome numbers
National Soybean Research Laboratory (NSRL)