Wolfgang Link

TL;DR: A general overview of the recent achievements on the study of abiotic stress responses in a broad range of model, grain and forage legumes species is provided, highlighting the different approaches used.

TL;DR: The adaptability and productivity of cool-season food legumes (chickpea, faba bean, lentil, pea) are limited by major abiotic stresses including drought, heat, frost, chilling, waterlogging, salinity and mineral toxicities, so field trials are increasingly supplemented with controlled-environment testing and physiological screening.

TL;DR: Stomatal conductance, leaf temperature and Δ13C are promising physiological indicators for drought tolerance in faba bean that could be measured in pot-grown plants at adequate water supply and may serve as indirect selection criteria to pre-screen genotypes.

TL;DR: Winter types of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) have existed for at least 200 years and their superior use of the growing season confers strong yield advantages over spring beans, Nevertheless, yield increases have been slower than in many other crops.

TL;DR: Large tracts of uninterrupted colinearity were found between faba bean and Medicago, making it relatively straightforward to predict gene content and order in mapped genetic interval, and this sequence‐based consensus map was used to explore synteny with the most closely related crop species, lentil and themost closely related fully sequenced genome, Medicago.