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Transcriptomics of Legume Seed: Soybean a Model Grain Legume

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Seed Development: OMICS Technologies toward Improvement of Seed Quality and Crop Yield

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Grain legumes are the crop plants belonging to family Leguminosae that are cultivated for their seed yield for the purpose of human food or animal feed. They possess high metabolic activity and fluxes in seeds and are an important source of protein in vegetarian diet or when the intake from animal or fish source is not available. Soybean (Glycine max) L. Merr. is the world’s most widely grown grain legume. In addition to a high seed protein content (approximately 40 %), soybean seeds are also a major source of vegetable oil (approximately 20 %) and many beneficial plant natural compounds, such as isoflavonoids. Recently, soybean has gained considerable attention as a major crop for biodiesel production. It has a complex genome with a large genome size (~ 1115 Mb) that has undergone at least two genome duplication events within the last 60 million years (Gill et al. Plant Physiol, 151: 1167–1174, 2009; Schlueter et al. Genome, 47: 868–876, 2004; Shoemaker et al. Genetics, 144: 329–338,1996). The research efforts in the past decades in soybean in the area of genome mapping, molecular breeding, genomics, and whole genome sequencing have generated a vast amount of data and knowledge, providing unique opportunities to the legume community to conduct both basic and applied research in soybean and its close relatives.

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Dhaubhadel, S., Marsolais, F. (2012). Transcriptomics of Legume Seed: Soybean a Model Grain Legume. In: Agrawal, G., Rakwal, R. (eds) Seed Development: OMICS Technologies toward Improvement of Seed Quality and Crop Yield. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4749-4_8

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