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

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Global food security requires a major re-focusing of plant sciences, crop improvement and production agronomy towards grain legumes (pulse crops) over coming decades, with intensive research and development to identify climate-resilient species and cultivars with improved grain characteristics. Labs contributing to this special issue have undertaken research and breeding to improve pulse crops, together with innovative production agronomy which contributes to the sustainability of cropping systems. The reviews and research together form an invaluable resource for the research community and policymakers.

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Authors/Creators:	Considine, MJ Siddique, KHM Foyer, CH https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5989-6989
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	(c) 2017, The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords:	Crop resilience, food security, genomics, grain legumes (pulse crops), legume breeding, orphan crops, RNA sequencing, symbiotic nitrogen fixation
Dates:	Accepted: 1 April 2017 Published (online): 11 May 2017 Published: 1 April 2017
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > School of Biology (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	22 May 2017 15:12
Last Modified:	03 Nov 2017 14:55
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx099
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