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Fenugreek, A Legume Spice and Multiuse Crop Adapted to a Changing Climate

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Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum), known as methi in much of South Asia, is a widely used spice and vegetable crop. Fenugreek is a multiuse legume crop grown in dry and semiarid regions of the developing world. It is an annual, dicotyledonous, self-pollinated plant belonging to the family Fabaceae. It is a diploid with 2n = 16 and is estimated to have 685 Mbp of genome size. The genus Trigonella L. includes about 135 species worldwide and is native to South-Eastern Europe and West Asia. Most widely known as a spice in Europe, it is also widely used medicinally and as a green vegetable or sprout and as a forage crop. Surprisingly it does not yet have a published genome, and refocusing attention on its uses may stimulate much-needed research on this underutilized crop. Key questions a genome will help address are trade-offs in performance among the various uses of fenugreek and improved understanding of its unique secondary metabolite profile.

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Conceptualization—P.K.N, E.B, S.A.K and. E.BvW; methodology, P.K.N, E.B., A.B. writing—P.N.K, E.B., A.B., E.B.vW.; reviewing and editing—E.B, S.A.K, E.VvW.; funding acquisition, P.N.K., E.BvW. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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This research was funded by an ICAR Graduate student fellowship to P.N.K. E.J.B.v.W is further supported by the USDA Hatch program through the Vermont State Agricultural Experimental Station.

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Narayana, P.K., Bueno, E., Baur, A., Ahmed, S., von Wettberg, E.J.B. (2022). Fenugreek, A Legume Spice and Multiuse Crop Adapted to a Changing Climate. In: Jha, U.C., Nayyar, H., Agrawal, S.K., Siddique, K.H.M. (eds) Developing Climate Resilient Grain and Forage Legumes. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9848-4_5

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