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Orphan legume crops enter the genomics era!
Current opinion in plant biology - 1 Apr 2009
Varshney Rajeev K, Close Timothy J, Singh Nagendra K, Hoisington David A, Cook Douglas R
Abstract excerpt
Many of the world's most important food legumes are grown in arid and semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia, where crop productivity is hampered by biotic and abiotic stresses. Until recently, these crops have also suffered from a dearth of genomic and molecular-genetic resources and thus were 'orphans' of the genome revolution. However, the community of legume researchers has begun a concerted effort to change...
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