The Legume Information System (LIS) is legume sciences portal specifically for legume breeders and researchers, established and supported by the

Agricultural Research Service The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). ARS is one of four agencies in USDA's Research, Education and Economics mission area. ARS is charged with ext ...

of the

United States Department of Agriculture The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and producti ...

. The mission of the Legume Information System is "to facilitate discoveries and crop improvement in the legumes," in particular to improve crop yields, their nutritional value, and our understanding of basic legume science. Development of the Legume Information System is a joint venture between the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) and the USDA-ARS at

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricult ...

. In 2014, development effort on LIS shifted from the comparative-legumes.org domain t
legumeinfo.org
The comparative-legumes site was developed using the Ruby on Rails framework, and the LegumeInfo site is developed using th
Tripal
content management system.

The reference species as a backbone for orphan species research

A fundamental approach taken in LIS is facilitate research in the orphan species by taking advantage of more extensive knowledge developed for the reference species. Use of synteny and local similarity, for instance, provides a basis for trait inference.

Reference species

Note that LIS makes use of the

UniProt UniProt is a freely accessible database of protein sequence and functional information, many entries being derived from genome sequencing projects. It contains a large amount of information about the biological function of proteins derived fro ...

br>organism mnemonics
for identifying species whenever possible. The current legume reference species (also referred to as

model organism A model organism is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the model organism will provide insight into the workings of other organisms. Mo ...

s) are the following: *

Glycine max The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (''Glycine max'') is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean. Soy is a staple crop, the world's most grown legume, and an important animal feed. Soy is a key source of f ...

(soybean)
GLYMA
* Lotus japonicus (lotus)
LOTJA
* Medicago truncatula (barrel medic)
MEDTR
*

Phaseolus vulgaris ''Phaseolus vulgaris'', the common bean,, is a herbaceous annual plant grown worldwide for its edible dry seeds or green, unripe pods. Its leaf is also occasionally used as a vegetable and the straw as fodder. Its botanical classification, alo ...

(common bean)
PHAVU

Orphan species

Orphan species represented at LIS are: * Arachis duranensis (wild peanut)
ARADU
* Arachis ipaensis (wild peanut)
ARAIP
*

Arachis hypogaea The peanut (''Arachis hypogaea''), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), goober pea, pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics by small and large ...

(peanut)
ARAHY
* Cajanus cajan (pigeon pea)
CAJCA
* Chamaecrista fasciculata (partidge pea)
CHAFS
*

Cicer arietinum The chickpea or chick pea (''Cicer arietinum'') is an annual legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, cultivated for its edible seeds. Its different types are variously known as gram," Bengal gram, garbanzo, garbanzo bean, or Egypt ...

(chickpea)
CICAR
* Lens culinaris (lentil)
LENCU
*

Lupinus albus ''Lupinus albus'', commonly known as the white lupin, is a species of the genus ''Lupinus'' in the family Fabaceae native to the northeastern Mediterranean region. It is also a traditional pulse cultivated across the Mediterranean region and e ...

(white lupin)
LUPAL
* Lupinus angustifolius (narrow-leafed lupin)
LUPAN
*

Medicago sativa Alfalfa () (''Medicago sativa''), also called lucerne, is a perennial flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae. It is cultivated as an important forage crop in many countries around the world. It is used for grazing, hay, and silage, as we ...

(alfalfa)
MEDSA
*

Pisum sativum Pea (''pisum'' in Latin) is a pulse or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species. Peas are eaten as a vegetable. Carl Linnaeus gave the species the scientific name ''Pisum sativum ...

(garden pea)
PISSA
*

Trifolium pratense ''Trifolium pratense'' (from Latin prātum, meaning meadow), red clover, is a herbaceous species of flowering plant in the bean family, Fabaceae. It is native to the Old World, but planted and naturalised in many other regions. Description ...

(red clover)
TRIPR
*

Trifolium repens ''Trifolium repens'', the white clover, is a herbaceous perennial plant in the bean family Fabaceae (otherwise known as Leguminosae). It is native to Europe, including the British Isles, and central Asia and is one of the most widely cultivated ...

(white clover),
TRIRE
*

Vicia faba ''Vicia faba'', commonly known as the broad bean, fava bean, or faba bean, is a species of vetch, a flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae. It is widely cultivated as a crop for human consumption, and also as a cover crop. Vari ...

(faba bean)
VICFA
* Vigna angularis (adzuki bean)
VIGAN
*

Vigna unguiculata The cowpea (''Vigna unguiculata'') is an Annual plant, annual Herbaceous plant, herbaceous legume from the genus ''Vigna''. Its tolerance for sandy soil and low rainfall have made it an important crop in the Semi-arid climate, semiarid regions a ...

(cowpea)
VIGUN

External links

Home page
for the Legume Information System. * *{{cite journal , pages=D660–5 , doi=10.1093/nar/gki128 , title=The Legume Information System (LIS): An integrated information resource for comparative legume biology , year=2004 , last1=Gonzales , first1=M. D. , journal=Nucleic Acids Research , volume=33 , pmid=15608283 , last2=Archuleta , first2=E , last3=Farmer , first3=A , last4=Gajendran , first4=K , last5=Grant , first5=D , last6=Shoemaker , first6=R , last7=Beavis , first7=WD , last8=Waugh , first8=ME , issue=Database issue , pmc=540082 *Dash, S.; Campbell, J.D.; Cannon, E.K.S.; Cleary, A.M.; Huang, W.; Kalberer, S.R.; Karingula, V.; Rice, A.G.; Singh, J.; Umale, P.E.; Weeks, N.T.; Wilkey, A.P.; Farmer, A.D.; Cannon, S.B. (2016)
Legume information system (LegumeInfo.org): a key component of a set of federated data resources for the legume family
''Nucleic Acids Research'' 44 (Database issue): D1181-D1188
doi:10.1093/nar/gkv1159PMC4702835
Biological databases Web portals Agricultural research

The reference species as a backbone for orphan species research

Reference species

Orphan species

See also

External links