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<p>It forms symbioses with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia (<em>Sinorhizobium meliloti</em> and <em>Sinorhizobium medicae</em>) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The model plant <em>Arabidopsis thaliana</em> does not form either symbiosis, making <em>M. truncatula</em> an important tool for studying these processes.</p>
<p>It is also an important forage crop species in Australia.</p>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">Medicago Truncatula Sequencing Consortium</span></h2>
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<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.medicago.org/" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.medicago.org/" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc">The Medicago truncatula Consortium</font></a> </li> <li><a class="external text" title="http://www.ccrc.uga.edu/personnel/hahn/mtimages.htm" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ccrc.uga.edu/personnel/hahn/mtimages.htm" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc">Images of M. truncatula</font></a> </li> <li><a class="external text" title="http://www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/mta1/" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/mta1/" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc">TIGR's link to Genome Browser and Gene Index</font></a> </li> <li><a class="external text" title="http://bioinfo.noble.org/gene-atlas" rel="nofollow" href="http://bioinfo.noble.org/gene-atlas" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc">The Medicago Gene Atlas at Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation</font></a> </li> <li><a class="external text" title="http://www.montpellier.inra.fr/BRC-MTR/" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.montpellier.inra.fr/BRC-MTR/" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc">INRA Medicago truncatula Stock Center - France</font></a> </li> <li><a class="external free" title="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/43/15289" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/43/15289" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc">http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/43/15289</font></a><br />
Cannon et al. (2006) Proceedings National Academy Sciences USA, 103:14959-14964. </li>
<li><a class="external free" title="http://www.medicago.org/genome/" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.medicago.org/genome/" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc">http://www.medicago.org/genome/</font></a><br />
website for US component of the Medicago truncatula Sequencing Project </li>
<li><a class="external free" title="http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/full/137/4/1174" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/full/137/4/1174" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc">http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/full/137/4/1174</font></a><br />
Young et al. (2005) Plant Physiology 137: 1174-1181. </li>
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