---
taxid: 3880
genus: Medicago
species: truncatula 
abbrev: medtr
commonName: barrel medic 
description: "Medicago truncatula, a close relative of alfalfa (M. sativa), is widely used as a model in legume biology. It is physically small in stature, with a small genome, and has a short generation-to-generation time. Sevweral high-quality genome assemblies have been generated, including Tang et al., 2014 (DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-15-312) and Pecrix et al., 2018 (DOI:10.1038/s41477-018-0286-7)."

resources: 
  - name: LIS Genome Browser (GBrowse)
    URL: "https://legacy.legumeinfo.org/genomes/gbrowse/Mt4.0"
    description: "GBrowse for Medicago truncatula assembly v4.0"
  - name: LIS Genome Browser (JBrowse)
    URL: "https://legacy.legumeinfo.org/genomes/jbrowse/Mt4.0"
    description: "JBrowse for Medicago truncatula assembly v4.0"
  - name: LIS SequenceServer
    URL: "https://sequenceserver.legumeinfo.org/"
    description: "SequenceServer BLAST against the Medicago truncatula assembly v4.0"   

strains:
  - identifier: A17
    accession: A17
    name: A17
    origin: Mediterranean region
    description: "Medicago truncatula accession A17 has been used for a large number of genetic and genomic studies. The genome for this accession has been used as the basis for several high-quality genome assemblies: including Tang et al., 2014 (DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-15-312) and Pecrix et al., 2018 (DOI:10.1038/s41477-018-0286-7)."
  - identifier: A17_HM341   
    accession: HM341
    name: A17 (HM341)
    origin: Mediterranean region
    description: "Medicago truncatula accession A17 has been used for a large number of genetic and genomic studies. The genome for this accession has been used as the basis for several high-quality genome assemblies: including Tang et al., 2014 (DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-15-312) and Pecrix et al., 2018 (DOI:10.1038/s41477-018-0286-7)."
  - identifier: R108_HM340
    accession: HM340
    name: R108 (HM340)
    origin: Mediterranean region
    description: "Medicago truncatula accession R108 has been used in various genetic and genomic studies, e.g. Gaige et al., 2011 (DOI:10.1080/07060661.2012.662176), Li et al., 2014 (DOI:10.1016/j.jplph.2013.12.018), and Cosson et al., 2006 (DOI:10.1385/1-59745-130-4:115). A genome assembly is available: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCA_002024945.1/."