Community

Some plant genome and gene family tools

Phytozome: Plant genomes and gene families
Plaza: A resource for plant comparative genomics
The Arabidopsis Information Portal (AraPort): Arabidopsis genomic resources, including tools such as ThaleMine, JBrowse etc.
The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR): Curated information about Arabidopsis gene function
Chromosome Counts Database: Comprehensive resource for plant chromosome numbers.
PhylomeDB: A database of phylogenetic trees and alignments for plants and other taxa

Legume resources

International Legume Society: Site for exchange of legume research, and host of the society's journals Legume Perspectives and Grain Legumes
Bean Improvement Cooperative: Voluntary and informal organization to effect the exchange of information and materials for the improvement of bean production worldwide.
Center for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture: Publications and newsletters from this center at the UWA
Cool Season Food Legume Database: Database for pea, lentil, and chickpea
Wikipedia: Legume: Descriptive information about the family
Legoo.org: A bioinformatics gateway towards integrative legume biology
KnowPulse: Pulse crop breeding and genetics, from University of Saskatchewan
Lupin Genome Portal: International collaborative project to sequence the genome of narrow-leafed lupin
Interactive Legume Database of Nodulation: Database of legumes and their nodulation status
ILDIS World Database of Legumes: Website for legume taxonomy
Tropical Forages: Database of tropical forages, with extensive list of legume forage crops and information
Medicago @ INRAE/CNRS: Medicago truncatula resources at INRAE/CNRS
RevGenUK: Reverse genetics (TILLING) resources for Medicago and Lotus; from the John Innes Centre
PeaMUST: Pea Multi-Stress adaptation and biological regulations for yield improvement and stability
SoyBase: Soybean genetic and genomic data: genome browser, maps, trait and QTL data, pathways, ...
Gramene Plant Reactome: database of plant metabolic and regulatory pathways

Recipes and nutrition

Legume Chef: Extensive collection of recipes. Also resources from the U.S. Dry Bean Council and the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council.
U.S. Dry Bean Council: Recipes, varieties, industry resources, nutrition

Information for growers

Saskatchewan Pulse Growers: Information for consumers and producers, on pulses grown in Canada (chickpeas, lentils, peas, beans)

Germplasm for Research

NPGS/GRIN: National Plant Germplasm System / Germplasm Resources Information Network

About the Legume Information System (LIS)

The mission of LIS is to enable productive applied and basic research in the legumes by relating data from multiple crop and model species, and by helping researchers traverse among various data types.

The prior version of this site is in the process of transitioning to version of the site you see here. Please contact us if you have questions or suggestions about the functionality at either site.

The Legume Information System, a component of the Model Plant Initiative (MPI), is developed by the National Center for Genome Resources in cooperation with the USDA Agricultural Research Service under a Specific Cooperative Agreement.

The LIS team

: NCGR team: Andrew Farmer, Sam Hokin, Sven Redsun, Alan Cleary, Connor Cameron, Sudhansu Dash
NCGR alums: Hrishikesh Lokhande, Pooja Umale, Alex Rice, John Crow, Ken Seal, Arvind Bharti, Selene Virk, Michael Gonzales, Kamal Gajendran, Eric Archuleta, Mark Waugh, Illiana Toneva
USDA LIS team: Steven Cannon, Nathan Weeks, Wei Huang, Scott Kalberer, Rex Nelson, Jacqueline Campbell
USDA LIS alums: David Grant, Andrew Wilkey, Prateek Gupta, Shivan Gunda, Deepak Bitragunta, Vijay Karingula, Benjamin Mulaosmanovic, Randy Shoemaker

Tools