Nature's pulse power: legumes, food security and climate change

Michael J Considine; Kadambot H M Siddique; Christine H Foyer

doi:10.1093/jxb/erx099

Nature's pulse power: legumes, food security and climate change

J Exp Bot. 2017 Apr 1;68(8):1815-1818. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erx099.

Authors

Michael J Considine^{1

2}, Kadambot H M Siddique¹, Christine H Foyer^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Australia, LB 5005, Perth WA 6001, Australia.
² Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, South Perth WA 6151, Australia.
³ Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: Crop resilience; RNA sequencing; food security; genomics; grain legumes (pulse crops); legume breeding; orphan crops; symbiotic nitrogen fixation..

Publication types

Editorial
Introductory Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Agriculture / methods*
Climate Change*
Fabaceae / genetics*
Food Supply / methods*
Humans
Plant Breeding*