From Legume Information System
Overview
Medicago truncatula cultivar Jemalong A17 is a reference legume, 550M bp, 2n = 16. The euchromatic region has been sequenced BAC by BAC, partially supplemented by an assembly of Illumina/Solexa paired short sequence reads.
Resources
- Genome assembly and annotations
- Genome release version 3.0
- Genome Annotation Group (IMGAG)
- Genome browsers
- GBrowse at JCVI
- NCBI Map Viewer
- Transcript assemblies
- Gene Index (MtGI) at DFCI
- Transcript assemblies at JCVI
- Transcript assemblies at LIS / comparative-legumes.org
- Gene expression resources
- Gene Expression Atlas (MtGEA)
- Affymetrix - GeneChip® Medicago Genome Array
- Genome Sequencing Consortium and resources
- Sequencing Consortium
- Sequencing Resources
- Genetic markers
- BAC end sequences
- Stock Center at INRA
- Integrated Medicago genome database (UrMeLdb) at MIPS
- Mt Database at JCVI
Selected references
- Young ND & Udvardi M (2009) Translating Medicago truncatula genomics to crop legumes. Curr Opin Plant Biol 12: 193-201.
- Bertioli et al (2009) An analysis of synteny of Arachis with Lotus and Medicago sheds new light on the structure, stability and evolution of legume genomes. BMC Genomics 10: 45.
- Benedito et al (2008) A gene expression atlas of the model legume Medicago truncatula. Plant J 55: 504-13.
- Young ND & Shoemaker RC (2006) Genome studies and molecular genetics: Part 1 Model legumes. Exploring the structure, function and evolution of legume genomes. Curr Opin Plant Biol 9: 95–8.
- Town CD (2006) Annotating the genome of Medicago truncatula. Curr Opin Plant Biol 9: 122–7.
- Cannon et al. (2006) Legume evolution viewed through the Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus genomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci 103: 14959-64.
- Young et al. (2005) Sequencing the genespaces of Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus. Plant Physiol 137: 1174-81.
- Mudge et al (2005) Highly syntenic regions in the genomes of soybean, Medicago truncatula, and Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC Plant Biol 5: 15.