Jiří Macas

Sep 26, 2024 | nature.com | Marielle Vigouroux |Pirita Paajanen |Jiří Macas |Burkhard Steuernagel |Cathie Martin

AbstractGrasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is an underutilised but promising legume crop with tolerance to a wide range of abiotic and biotic stress factors, and potential for climate-resilient agriculture. Despite a long history and wide geographical distribution of cultivation, only limited breeding resources are available. This paper reports a 5.96 Gbp genome assembly of grasspea genotype LS007, of which 5.03 Gbp is scaffolded into 7 pseudo-chromosomes.

Mar 8, 2023 | nature.com | Murukarthick Jayakodi |Hailin Zhang |Sukhjiwan Kaur |Kwok Yip Cheung |Heidrun Gundlach |Pavel Neumann | +27 more

AbstractIncreasing the proportion of locally produced plant protein in currently meat-rich diets could substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and loss of biodiversity1. However, plant protein production is hampered by the lack of a cool-season legume equivalent to soybean in agronomic value2. Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) has a high yield potential and is well suited for cultivation in temperate regions, but genomic resources are scarce.