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taxid: 70973
genus: Medicago
species: ruthenica 
abbrev: medru
description: "A wild perennial forage species widely distributed in semi-arid grasslands and adapted tolerate environmental stresses including drought, low temperatures, and infertile soils"

resources: 
  - name: Medicago SequenceServer
    URL: "https://medicago.legumeinfo.org/tools/sequenceserver"
    description: "SequenceServer BLAST against the Medicago ruthenica Xinghe v1.0 genome assembly"   

strains:
  - identifier: Xinghe
    accession: Xinghe
    name: Xinghe
    origin: Northern China
    description: "Occurs naturally in arid and semi-arid areas of northern China"