Authors
Nevin D Young, Frédéric Debellé, Giles ED Oldroyd, Rene Geurts, Steven B Cannon, Michael K Udvardi, Vagner A Benedito, Klaus FX Mayer, Jérôme Gouzy, Heiko Schoof, Yves Van de Peer, Sebastian Proost, Douglas R Cook, Blake C Meyers, Manuel Spannagl, Foo Cheung, Stéphane De Mita, Vivek Krishnakumar, Heidrun Gundlach, Shiguo Zhou, Joann Mudge, Arvind K Bharti, Jeremy D Murray, Marina A Naoumkina, Benjamin Rosen, Kevin AT Silverstein, Haibao Tang, Stephane Rombauts, Patrick X Zhao, Peng Zhou, Valérie Barbe, Philippe Bardou, Michael Bechner, Arnaud Bellec, Anne Berger, Hélène Bergès, Shelby Bidwell, Ton Bisseling, Nathalie Choisne, Arnaud Couloux, Roxanne Denny, Shweta Deshpande, Xinbin Dai, Jeff J Doyle, Anne-Marie Dudez, Andrew D Farmer, Stéphanie Fouteau, Carolien Franken, Chrystel Gibelin, John Gish, Steven Goldstein, Alvaro J González, Pamela J Green, Asis Hallab, Marijke Hartog, Axin Hua, Sean J Humphray, Dong-Hoon Jeong, Jing
Publication date
2011/12
Journal
Nature
Volume
480
Issue
7378
Pages
520-524
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Description
Legumes (Fabaceae or Leguminosae) are unique among cultivated plants for their ability to carry out endosymbiotic nitrogen fixation with rhizobial bacteria, a process that takes place in a specialized structure known as the nodule. Legumes belong to one of the two main groups of eurosids, the Fabidae, which includes most species capable of endosymbiotic nitrogen fixation. Legumes comprise several evolutionary lineages derived from a common ancestor 60 million years ago (Myr ago). Papilionoids are the largest clade, dating nearly to the origin of legumes and containing most cultivated species. Medicago truncatula is a long-established model for the study of legume biology. Here we describe the draft sequence of the M. truncatula euchromatin based on a recently completed BAC assembly supplemented with Illumina shotgun sequence, together capturing ∼94% of all M. truncatula genes. A whole-genome …
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