Special Issue on Legume

A Legume is a plant of the family Leguminosae or the seed of the plant. Legumes are widely used as food, livestock forage, silage, soil-enhancing green manure and so on. Legumes have important economic significance，they are important source of protein, oil and vegetables. In addition, the symbioses between rhizobium and legumes make a great contribution to nitrogen-fixing. The goal of this special issue is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in this area of legume.

In this special issue, we intend to invite front-line researchers and authors to submit original research and review articles on exploring legume. In this special issue, potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Biological nitrogen fixation 
• Evolution, phylogeny and taxonomy 
• Economic and cultural importance 
• Production in agriculture
• Nutritional facts 
• Physiology, molecule and biochemistry 
• Breeding of legumes

Authors should read over the journal’s Authors’ Guidelines carefully before submission. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal’s Paper Submission System.

Please kindly notice that the “Special Issue” under your manuscript title is supposed to be specified and the research field “Special Issue - Legume” should be chosen during your submission.

According to the following timetable:

Submission Deadline	February 4th, 2015
Publication Date	April 2015

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