---
taxid: 3888
genus: Pisum
species: sativum
abbrev: pissa
commonName: pea
description: "Pea is an important grain legume, serving multiple roles: as a dry pulse, a green vegetable (with varieties grown for seeds and for pods), as a green manure and cover crop, and as a forage. Pea was domesticated ~10,000 years ago by Neolithic farmers of the Fertile Crescent, along with cereals and other grain legumes (Kreplak et al., 2019; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0480-1)."

strains:
  - identifier: Cameor
    accession: Cameor
    name: Cameor
    origin: France
    description: "The variety Cameor was released by the French breeding company Seminor in 1973."
    resources:
      - name: LIS SequenceServer
        URL: "https://sequenceserver.legumeinfo.org/"
        description: "SequenceServer BLAST against Cameor assembly v1.0"