Legumes (Fabaceae or Leguminosae) are unique among cultivated plants for their ability to
carry out endosymbiotic nitrogen fixation with rhizobial bacteria, a process that takes place …

The flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is a dicot model organism for research in many
aspects of plant biology. A comprehensive annotation of its genome paves the way for …

Background Brassica oleracea is a valuable vegetable species that has contributed to human
health and nutrition for hundreds of years and comprises multiple distinct cultivar groups …

Background Medicago truncatula, a close relative of alfalfa, is a preeminent model for studying
nitrogen fixation, symbiosis, and legume genomics. The Medicago sequencing project …

A big challenge in current systems biology research arises when different types of data must
be accessed from separate sources and visualized using separate tools. The high cognitive …

The Arabidopsis Information Portal ( https://www.araport.org ) is a new online resource for
plant biology research. It houses the Arabidopsis thaliana genome sequence and associated …

10.7554/eLife.19090.001 The germline genome of the binucleated ciliate Tetrahymena
thermophila undergoes programmed chromosome breakage and massive DNA elimination to …

Premise of the study: Targeted sequencing using next‐generation sequencing (NGS)
platforms offers enormous potential for plant systematics by enabling economical acquisition of …

Medicago truncatula, a close relative of alfalfa (Medicago sativa), is a model legume used
for studying symbiotic nitrogen fixation, mycorrhizal interactions and legume genomics. J. …

Improvements in next‐generation sequencing technologies have resulted in dramatically
reduced sequencing costs. This has led to an explosion of ‘‐seq’‐based methods, of which …