Lens culinaris (lentil)
Overview
Lentil is a member of the galegoid (cool-season) legume clade. This annual grain legume crop is cultivated in both northern temperate regions (e.g. the north-west U.S. or south-central Canada), and in arid and semi-arid areas of the developing world. Lentilis valuable as a highly versatile and nutritious pulse.
Of Special Interest
See the lentil transcriptome assemblies and related resources at the Cool Season Food Legume Database, and the lentil research and resources at KnowPulse.
| NCBI taxon | 3864 | |
| GRIN taxon | 411141 |
Genome Summary
| Chromosomes | 2n = 14 |
Resources
Reference Data
Selected References
Current publications on Lens culinaris at PubMed.
Kaur S, Cogan NO, Pembleton LW, Shinozuka M, Savin KW, Materne M, Forster JW. Transcriptome sequencing of lentil based on second-generation technology permits large-scale unigene assembly and SSR marker discovery. BMC Genomics. 2011 May 25; 12: 265.