Medicago truncatula

Medicago truncatula
A model for legume research

UMN Medicago resources: Genome sequencing project; Medicago truncatula 3.0 assembly release: available here

Medicago links: Medicago truncatula Handbook— Noble Foundation; Genome sequencing project — International; Medicago truncatula Gene Expression Atlas — Noble Foundation; DFCI Medicago Gene Index — DFCI; Medicago EST database — JCVI; European Medicago consortium — INRA, CNRS, Genoscope; MENS European Medicago EST Navigation System — Toulouse; Medicago functional genomics — Noble Foundation; Medicago functional genomics — VBI; Medicago TILLING — RevGenUK; Medicago Affymetrix GeneChip Annotations — USDA-ARS/Minnesota; Medicago RNAi Database — Minnesota

Legume links: LIN: The Legume Information Network — NCGR & UMN; LIS: Legume Information System — NCGR; Lotus japonicus genome — Kazusa; Legume phylogeny database — ASU; Soybase — IA State; BeanGenes — NDSU

Symbionts: Sinorhizobium meliloti genome project — Toulouse; Sinorhizobium meliloti genome project — Stanford; molecular plant-microbe interactions — CNRS-INRA; Rhizobium germplasm — USDA-ARS

Other resources, tools: Community resources; Medicago-community phonebook; Literature; Blast, align, HMM searches; Genome

Significant microarray resources are available for Medicago truncatula research. A microarray with 16,000 spots (the 16K array) is available, and can help determine which genes have increasing or decreasing expression in different conditions or developmental stages.

Medicago arabica flowers and shoots. Copyright Malcom Storey, www.bioimages.org.uk