Tools

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 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