Medicago truncatula Genome

This book focuses on the discoveries inM. truncatulagenomic research which has been undertaken in the last two decades.Legumes are important for their economic values as food, feed, and fodder and also serve as the pillar of sustainable agriculture because of its biological nitrogen fixation capacity.Medicago truncatulawas established as a model legume in the 1990s and has been well adopted as a model internationally since then.M. truncatulais an autogamous, diploid (2n = 16) species with a short generation time, and relatively small genome size (~375 Mbp). TheM. truncatulagenome was initiallysequenced by the International Medicago Genome Annotation Group (IMGAG) in 2011 and has been well-annotated. M. truncatularesearch benefits from the availability of several genetic and genomic tools, such as gene expression atlas (MtGEA), insertion and neutron bombardment mutant populations, anda HapMap panel containing 384 sequenced inbred lines for genome-wide association studies. This book covers the current status and latest advancements of theM. truncatulagenomics and transcriptomics resources along with a glimpse of newly developed tools that makesM. truncatulaa front runner model in functional genomic studies.