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The Bean Bag
A newsletter to promote communication among research scientists concerned with the
systematics of the Leguminosae/Fabaceae
Number 59 December 2012
FROM THE EDITOR
Lourdes Rico
The Bean Bag is a newsletter designed to promote communication among research
scientists concerned with legume systematics. It started in 1974 as the initiative of Bob
Gunn and Richard Cowan; the first printed issue was distributed in May 1975, so Bean Bag is
nearly 40 years old. The aim of the Bean Bag was to produce once a year a document to
keep legume researchers informed and updated with new titles or projects on the family.
Nowadays electronic distribution makes circulation more efficient and economic.
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NEWS
Sixth International Legume Conference (VI ILC), Johannesburg, South Africa
To be held 6-11 January 2013 at the University of Johannesburg.
The Sixth International Legume Conference ‘Towards a new classification system for
legumes’ promises to be an exciting event with important discussions and insights; during
the conference discussions on this topic will be led by the Legume Phylogeny Working
Group (LPWG). Key lectures will be given by distinguished Professors Jeff Doyle, Matt Lavin,
Janet Sprent, Colin Hughes and Mr Domingos Cardoso. The program, however, is diverse
and includes sessions on Anatomy, Biogeography, Caesalpinioideae, Chemosystematics,
Commercial Legumes, Cultivation and Legumes in Agriculture, Ecology, Genetics and
Genomics, Floral Biology, Invasions, Legume Floras, Lupinus, Mimosoideae, Papilionoideae,
and Plant Soil Interactions. There will also be a general poster session. A total of ca. 140
delegates are expected.

In addition, a workshop entitled “Global Legume Diversity Assessment (GLDA): Concept and
Challenges” will be held during the conference.
A post-conference excursion will take place from 12-19 January 2013 where participants will
explore the legumes of the Highveld and Lowveld, and visit the Kruger National Park among
other fascinating activities.
All this thanks to the Organising committee: Prof. Ben-Erik van Wyk (chair); Dr Annah
Moteetee (co-chair); Dr Stephen Boatwright (Scientific program coordinator); Dr Marianne
le Roux (Secretary); Ms Helen Long (Treasurer and logistics coordinator).
ILDON Interactive Database of Nodulation
Janet Sprent, Euan James and Peter Winfield
There is currently no up-to-date accessible database of legume nodulation and nodule properties.
We are starting to compile one and will launch it at the ILC VI. The database will be made available
as a web publication and is based on Alice software. To begin with we shall concentrate on a few
tribes and seek feedback. The main descriptors to be used are: 1, occurrence; absent, present,
suspected, inferred, unknown: 2, morphology; determinate – desmodioid, determinateaeschynomenoid,
indigoferoid, lupinoid, indeterminate- no branches, indeterminate-one or few
branches, indeterminate-many branches, woody: 3, infection route; hairs, cracks-no infection threads
formed, cracks- infection threads formed, epidermis : 4, central tissue of nodule; uniformly infected,
not uniformly infected: 5, location of bacteroids; within symbiosomes, retained within fixation threads:
6, bacteroid structure; bacteroids not terminally differentiated, bacteroids terminally differentiated. Up
to 5 notes with citations can be added for each taxon. At the end of an entry there is a space for
comments, which might for example be used to note particular bacterial endophytes or that host
taxonomy is under review, with some possible outcomes. The database will have links to others such
as ILDIS and LOWO.
Any comments or questions from those not going to Johannesburg will be welcomed, please contact
Janet Sprent at jisprent@btinternet.com
International Conference on Legume Genomics and Genetics (ICLGG)
Hyderabad, India, took place October 2 -7, 2012
Julie Hofer
The VI ICLGG was hosted in Hyderabad, India, home of the International Crops Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). As the programme http://www.icrisat.org/gtbt/VI-ICLGG/ICLGGProgramme.pdf
suggests, this 5 day conference focused on the latest

developments in genomics technologies in legume species used as food and feed. About 500
delegates from 44 countries heard how genome sequences and transcriptome data were
being used to generate molecular markers for linkage mapping and germplasm screening.
Knowing the genetic map location of important agronomic traits and understanding the
level of trait variation available in germplasm collections are key elements for breeding
future legume crops successfully.
The genomes of Glycine max (http://soybase.org/), Medicago truncatula
(http://www.medicagohapmap.org/), Lotus japonicus (http://www.kazusa.or.jp/lotus/) and
Phaseolus vulgaris (http://www.phytozome.org/) were among the first legume species to be
sequenced. Now efforts are being directed at resequencing wild relatives of these species in
order to identify alleles useful in breeding such as those conferring pathogen resistance and
alleles involved in domestication. More recently, first draft genome sequences of cowpea
(Vigna unguiculata) http://www.harvest-web.org and pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) have
become available and the chickpea (Cicer arietinum) genome will soon follow suit (a
chickpea transcriptome database is already available at http://59.163.192.90:8080/ctdb/) .
In fact, genomic and/or transcriptomic data from 18 legume species, including garden pea
(Pisum sativum) can be browsed at http://comparative-legumes.org/. The conference heard
that genome sequencing projects are underway in alfalfa (Medicago sativa), narrow leaf
lupin (Lupinus angustifolia), peanut (Arachis hypogea) and mungbean (Vigna radiata).
Resources for investigating gene function are available in Medicago truncatula such as the
Gene Expression Atlas (http://mtgea.noble.org/v2) and the Tnt1-insertion population. Each
line in this population carries 30 – 50 Tnt1 (a retrotransposon from tobacco) insertions, a
database can be searched to find a line carrying a Tnt1 insertion in any gene of interest and
seed of that line can be ordered for experimental purposes (http://medicagomutant.noble.org/mutant/).
A similar resource is being expanded in Lotus japonicus, using
the endogenous LTR retrotransposon, LORE1, to tag genes http://usersmb.au.dk/pmgrp/blast/blast.html.
It was announced that version 3.0 of the L. japonicus
genome will be published next year after resequencing 29 Lotus diverse accessions.
Many talks and approximately 300 posters covered new understanding gleaned from all this
genomics information in the fields of legume genome evolution, disease resistance, food
quality and marker-assisted breeding. Overall the meeting was a resounding success and a
fascinating cultural experience. The next ICLGG is planned for 2014 in Canada.
Progress with Legume Red List assessments on the latest release of the IUCN
Red List of Threatened Plants
Steve Bachman
There was a significant boost in the number of Legume species on the latest edition of the
Red List of Threatened Species thanks to the IUCN Sampled Red List Index Project – a
collaborative project between Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Natural History Museum and
IUCN. In total 951 legumes were added from a random sample. The assessments are part of
an ongoing monitoring project that tracks how Red List status changes over time. These

species will be reviewed again for another assessment in 2020 and will form part of a global
indicator that responds directly to the Convention on Biological Diversity goals – specifically
Aichi Biodiversity Target 12. For further information see here:
Contact: Janine Griffiths j.griffiths@kew.org
Legume species profiles on Kew’s website
Emma Tredwell
The ‘Plants & Fungi’ section of Kew’s website now contains profiles of 44 species of
legumes. You can explore these using the gallery of images at the bottom of the
Leguminosae page.
http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/search-rescue/mapping-plants/plants-atrisk/index.htm
http://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/plants-fungi-A-
Z/index.htm
Want to know more about the Critically
Endangered Acacia anegadensis, which is only
found in the British Virgin Islands – and what
Kew and partners are doing to protect it?
Keen to see images of the recently identified
rainforest giant Berlinia korupensis?
Need some information to answer a query from
the public about the ever-popular Mimosa
pudica?
Love to know all sorts of uses for Glycyrrhiza
glabra (including compost, fire-extinguishers
and shoe polish)?
Or, you can search all species using the A to Z list or species browser.
If you would like to contribute text or images to this growing resource (or put forward
comments or corrections), please contact Emma Tredwell (e.tredwell@kew.org).
Thank you to everyone who has been involved so far and here’s to the next 19,000 amazing
profiles!

OBITUARY
Kai Larsen (15 November 1926 – 23 August 2012)
Larsen at:
Professor Kai Larsen died on 23 August 2012.
Numerous of his Legume contributions were coauthored
with his wife Supee Saksuwan Larsen. He
was professor of botany (Emeritus from 1-12-1996) at
Århus University, Denmark; editor of Flora Nordica,
Flora of Thailand (commemorative postal stamp on
the left), advisor to Flora of China and executive
member of Flora Malesiana. More about Professor
http://www.sc.mahidol.ac.th/scpl/Kai_Larsen/index.htm ;
http://novataxa.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/kai-larsen-1926-2012.html
GLEANINGS
Deniz Aygoren, a PhD student at the University of Reading, is planning to reconstruct a more fully
resolved and supported tree of Fabales, and use it to examine keeled flowers as putative key
innovations and to investigate phenological patterns in the order. She builds on the work on the
elusive sister of the Leguminosae of Angelica Bello, who published her combined analysis of the
order Fabales in 2012 (Bello, et al. 2012). Deniz is working under the supervision of Julie Hawkins
and Felix Forest (Reading University and Kew Jodrell Laboratory, UK).
Maribel Arenas, a MSc student is working with patterns of richness, endemism and beta diversity in
Mexico analyzing correlation with climate; modelling species of the genera Acacia, Caesalpinia,
Ormosia, Rhynchosia,Tephrosia,Olneya, Andira, Eriosema, Errazurizia, Psorothamnus and Senna.
She is supervised by Dr. O. Téllez V. in FEZ, UNAM, México
Morgane Eléouët, a PhD student is researching genes regulating compound leaf development in
Pisum sativum. Morgane is supervised by Noel Ellis and Julie Hofer in Aberystwyth University, Wales,
UK
Erin Zimmerman, PhD Candidate, is sudying morphology and floral ontogeny of several
Caesalpinioideae genera, Erin is supervised by Dr. Anne Bruneau in Montreal, Canada.
Tania M. Moura, a PhD student was awarded the Shirley A. Graham Fellowship in Systematic
Botany and Biogeography, Missouri Botanical Garden, to stay 3 months in MO (9th July to 10th
October, 2012), working towards a Phylogeny of Mucuna Adans. (Phaseoleae) and Taxonomy of the
American species. In 2012 she had a grant from the IAPT - International Association Plant
Taxonomist towards the project Mucuna from Ecuador. Her work is supervised by Dra. Ana Maria
Goulart de Azevedo-Tozzi, with Dr. Vidal de Freitas Mansano as co-advisor and Dr. G.P. Lewis as a
collaborator.
Papilionoideae for Flora du Gabon: many genera have been completed; Jos van der Maesen is
continuing writing up the large genera Dalbergia, Millettia, and Leptoderrris; a list of Millettia

specimens was generated, and a revision of two sections is co-authored by Adomou (Benin), Adema
(L) and (WAG); Dr. F.J. Breteler is contributing the genus Baphia; Dr. R. Pasquet is co-authoring the
genus Vigna.
NEW PROJECTS
Identifying Geographically Based Metapopulations for Development of Plant Materials
Indigenous to Rangeland Ecosystems of the Western USA.
Douglas A. Johnson, B. Shaun Bushman, Thomas A. Jones, and Kishor Bhattarai
Rangeland ecosystems account for about half of the earth’s land surface. They play an important role
in providing forage for livestock and wildlife, and they serve as critical watershed areas. Many of the
world’s rangelands have been degraded by overgrazing, marginal crop production, mineral and
energy extraction, recreation, and other human-caused disturbances. This degradation has led to
invasion by exotic weeds and subsequent increases in fire frequency. This, in combination with
uncertainties associated with global climatic change, has resulted in a critical need for plant materials
to restore and revegetate rangeland ecosystems. The assessment of genetic variation and its
phenotypic expression in important rangeland plant species (especially forbs) is critical in defining
population structures (genetically differentiated groups) that could be used in rangeland
restoration/revegetation efforts. We used common-garden studies and DNA-based analysis of genetic
variation to assess genetic diversity in three rangeland legume species indigenous to rangeland
ecosystems of the Great Basin Region of the western USA. Results of these studies are presented as
three case studies that describe data collection procedures, analysis, and interpretation used to
identify population structures in each species. These data formed the basis for combining plant
collections into geographically based metapopulations for the three legume species that are being
used to develop plant materials for commercial seed production and subsequent use on rangelands of
the Great Basin. Case studies include Astragalus filipes, Dalea ornata and D. searlsiae.
In U. Lüttge et al. (eds.), Progress in Botany 74, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-30967-0_10, # Springer-
Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
RECENT LEGUME LITERATURE
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of African Yam Bean by seed parameters. ARPN Journal of Agricultural and Biological Science 7(6):
454-461.
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Morphological diversity analysis of African yam bean and prospects for utilization in germplasm
conservation and breeding. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 59: 927 – 936.
Adewale B. D., & Celestina, O.N. 2013. A Review on Genetic Resources, Diversity and agronomy of
African Yam Bean (Sphenostylis stenocarpa (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Harms): A
Potential Future Food Crop. Sustainable Agriculture Research 2(1): 32-43. 2013URL:
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2012 . Antioxidant activities of isolated compounds from stems of Mimosa invisa Mart. ex Colla.
Química Nova 35: 567-570.

Al-Shaharani, T.S. & Shetta, N.D. 2011. Evaluation of Growth, Nodulation and Nitrogen
Fixation of Two Acacia Species under Salt Stress. World Applied Sciences Journal 13: 256-
265.
Alves, C. Q., David, J.M., David, J.P., Villareal, C. F., Soares, M.P.B., Queiroz, L.P., Aguiar, R.M.
2012. Flavonoids and other bioactive phenolics isolated from Cenostigma macrophyllum.
Química Nova 35: 1137-1140.
Ampomah, O.Y., James, E.K., Iannetta, P.P., Kenicer, G., Sprent, J.I., Huss-Danell, K. 2012.
Nodulation and ecological significance of indigenous legumes in Scotland and Sweden. Symbiosis 57:
133-148.
Andrew, M., James, E.K., Boddey, R.M., Gross, E., dos Reis, Jr. F.B. 2011. Nitrogen fixation in
legumes and actinorhizal plants in natural ecosystems: values obtained using 15 N natural abundance.
Plant Ecology and Diversity 4: 131-140.
Awad, V., Mukherjee, S., Pawar, P., Harsulkar, A. 2011. Somatic embryogenesis, regeneration and in
vitro production of glycyrrhizic acid from root cultures of Taverniera cuneifolia (Roth) Arn. Vitro
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Bach, H. & Fortunato, R.H. 2010. Crotalaria chaco-serranensis H. Bach & Fortunato nom. nov.
(Leguminosae) from the Argentinean Chaco. Candollea 65 (1): 2-10.
Bello, M.A., Rudall, P.J. & Hawkins, J.A. 2012. Combined phylogenetic analyses reveal interfamilial
relationships and patterns of floral evolution in the eudicot order Fabales. Cladistics 28: 393-421.
Bessega, C. & Fortunato, R.H. 2011. Section Mimadenia: its phylogenetic relationships within the
genus Mimosa Leguminosae, Mimosoideae) using plastid trnL-F sequence data. Austr. Syst. Bot. 24
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Borges, L. A., Souza, L.G.R., Guerra M., Machado, I.C., Lewis, G. P., Lopes, A.V. 2012. Reproductive
isolation between diploid and tetraploid cytotypes of Libidibia ferrea (= Caesalpinia ferrea)
(Leguminosae): ecological and taxonomic implications. Plant Systematics and Evolution 298: 1371-
1381.
Breteler, F.J. 2011. Revision of the African genus Isomacrolobium (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae).
Plant Ecology and Evolution 144 (1): 64-81.
Broadhurst, L.M., Murray, B.G., Forrester, R. & Young, A.G. 2012. Cryptic genetic variability in
Swainsona sericea (A. Lee) H. Eichler (Fabaceae): lessons for restoration. Australian Journal of
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Caetano, S., Currat, M., Pennington, R.T., Prado, E.D., Excoffier, L. & Naciri, Y. 2012 . Recent
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Cane, J.H., Weber, M. & Miller, S. 2012. Breeding biologies, pollinators and seed beetles of two
prairie-clovers, Dalea ornata and D. searlsiae (Fabaceae: Amorpheae), from the Intermountain West
USA. West. North Amer. Natur. 72 (1):16-20.
Caponio, I., Anton, A. M., Fortunato, R.H. and G.A. Norrmann, 2011.Ploidy dimorphism and
reproductive biology in Stenodrepanum bergii (Leguminosae), a rare South American endemism.
Genome 54: 1-7.
Cardoso, D.B.O.S., Lima, H.C., Rodriguez, R.S., Queiroz, L.P., Pennington, R.T. & Lavin, M. 2012.
The realignment of Acosmium sensu stricto with the Dalbergioid clade (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae)

eveals a proneness for independent evolution of radial floral symmetry among early-branching
papilionoid legumes. Taxon 61: 1057-1073.
Cardoso, D.B.O.S., Lima, H.C., Rodriguez, R.S., Queiroz, L.P., Pennington, R.T. & Lavin, M. 2012.
The Bowdichia clade of Genistoid legumes: Phylogenetic analysis of combined molecular and
morphological data and a recircumscription of Diplotropis. Taxon 65: 1074-1087.
Cardoso, D.B.O.S., Queiroz, L.P., Pennington, R.T. de Lima, H.C., Wojciechowski, M. F. & Lavin, M.
2012. Revisiting the phylogeny of papilionoid legumes: New insights from comprehensively sampled
early-branching lineages. American Journal of Botany 99: 1991-2013.
Cardoso, D. B.O.S., Queiroz, L.P. & de Lima, H.C. 2012. Luetzelburgia amazonica (Leguminosae:
Papilionoideae: Vataireoid clade), a new species from Brazilian Amazonia. Kew Bull. 67(4): 833-836.
Cardoso, D. B.O.S., Queiroz, L.P. & de Lima, H.C. 2012. Two New Species of Luetzelburgia
(Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) from the Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests of Bolivia. Systematic
Botany 37: 677-683.
Chen, J., Moreau, C., Liu, Y., Kawaguchi, M., Hofer, J.M.I, Ellis, N.T.H. & Chen, R. 2012. Conserved
genetic determinant of motor organ identity in Medicago truncatula and related legumes. Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. USA 109: 11723-11728
Couzigou, Jean-Malo, Zhukov, V., Mondy, S., Abu el Heba,G., Cosson, V., Ellis, N.T.H., Ambrose,
M., Wen, J.,Tadege, M., Tikhonovich, I., Mysore, K.S., Putterill, J., Hofer, J.M.I., Borisov, A.Y. & Ratet,
P. 2012. NODULE ROOT and COCHLEATA Maintain Nodule Development and Are Legume
Orthologs of Arabidopsis BLADE-ON-PETIOLE Genes. Plant Cell
http://www.plantcell.org/cgi/doi/10.1105/tpc.112.103747
Cruz Mattos, E. & Sousa Paiva, E.A. (2012). Structure, function and secretory products of the peltate
glands of Centrolobium tomentosum (Fabaceae, Faboideae). Australian Journal of Botany 60: 301–
309.
Clarke, P. G., Burgess, N. D., Mbago, F. M., Mackinder, B. & Gereau, R.E. 2011. Two ‘extinct’ trees
rediscovered near Kilwa, Tanzania. Journal of East African Natural History 100 (1&2): 133–140.
Clark, R., X. van der Burgt, Banks, H., Abdulai, M.B. Feika & Lewis, G.P. (2012). A synopsis of
Pseudovigna (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) including a new species, P. sulaensis, from Sierra
Leone. Kew Bulletin 66: 589-599.
Corby, H.D.L., Smith, D.L. & Sprent, J.I. 2011. Size, structure and nitrogen content of seeds of
Fabaceae in relation to nodulation. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 167: 251-280.
da Silva, M. J., de Queiroz, L. P., Azevedo-Tozzi, A.M.G., Lewis, G.P., Souza, A.P. 2012. Phylogeny
and biogeography of Lonchocarpus sensu lato and its allies in the tribe Millettieae (Leguminosae,
Papilionoideae). Taxon 61: 93-108.
Delgado-Salinas, A.O., Thulin, M, Pasquet, R., Weeden, N. & Lavin, M. (2011). Vigna (Leguminosae)
sensu lato: the names and identities of the American segregated genera. American Journal of Botany
98(10): 1694–1715.
Drummond, C. S., Eastwood, R., Miotto, S.T.S. & Hughes, C.E. 2012. Multiple continental radiations
and correlates of diversification in Lupinus (Leguminosae): testing for key innovation with incomplete
taxon sampling. Systematic Biology 61: 443-460. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syr126.
Endo, Y. 2012. Anatomical diversity of funicules in Leguminosae. J. Plant Res. 125: 41-53.
Estrella, de la, M., van der Burgt, X.M., Mackinder, B.A., Devesa, J.A., Matthew S.J. & Hawthorne,
W.D. 2012. Gilbertiodendron tonkolili sp. nov. (Leguminosae – Caesalpinioideae) from Sierra Leone.
Nordic Journal of Botany 30: 136–143.

Fatihah, N.H., Maxted, N. & Rico Arce, M. de L. 2012. Cladistic analysis of Psophocarpus Neck. ex
DC. (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) based on morphological characters. South African Journal of
Botany 83: 78-88.
Fonseca, M.B., Peix, A., de Faria, S.M., Mateos, P.F., Rivera, L.P., Simoes-Araujo, J.L., Franca,
M.G.C., dos Santos Isias, R.m., Cruz, C., Vélazquez, E., Scotti, M.R., Sprent, J.I. & James, E.K.
2012. Nodulation in Dimorphandra wilsonii Rizz. (Caesalpinioideae), a Threatened Species Native to
the Brazilian Cerrado. PLoS ONE 7(11): e49520. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049520
Gehlot, H.S., Panwar, D., Tak, N., Tak, A., Sankla, I.S., Poonar, N., Parihar, R., Shekhawat, N.S.,
Kumar, M., Tiwari, R., Ardley, J., James, E.K., Sprent, J.I. 2012 Nodulation of legumes from the Thar
desert of India and molecular characterization of their rhizobia. Plant & Soil 357: 227-243
Geeta, R., Dávalos, L. M., Levy, A., Bohs, L., Lavin, M., Mummenhoff, K., Sinha, N. & Wojciechowski,
M. F. 2012. Keeping it simple: Flowering plants tend to retain, and revert to, simple leaves. New
Phytologist 193: 481-493.
Kull, C.A. & Rangan, H. 2012. Science, sentiment and territorial chauvinism in the acacia name
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Lewis, G. P., Wood, J. R. I. & Lavin, M. 2012. Steinbachiella (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae:
Dalbergieae), endemic to Bolivia, is reinstated as an accepted genus. Kew Bull. 67 (4): 789-796.
Lima, L.C.P, Queiroz, L.P., de, Azevedo-Tozzi, A.M.G. de & Lewis, G. P. 2012. (2089) Proposal to
conserve the name Hedysarum incanum Sw. against Hedysarum incanum Thunb. (Leguminosae).
Taxon 61(5): 1122 – 1123.
Mackinder, B. A. & Clark, R. 2012. Baphia rosa (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae), a new species from
the Kabompo District of Zambia and a review of the classification of B. chrysophylla, B. claessensii
and B. gilletii from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kew Bulletin 67: 1-8.
Millar, M.A. & Byrne, M. 2012. Biogeographic origins and reproductive mode of naturalised
populations of Acacia saligna. Australian Journal of Botany 60: 383–395.
Maesen, L.J.G. van der 2010. Novitates Gabonenses 75: note on Platysepalum (Leguminosae-
Papilionoideae) in Gabon. Webbia 65(2): 165-171.
Maturo, H.M & Prado, D.E. 2012. Los bosques del Chaco Húmedo, vegetación y fitogeografía.
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Maxted, N., Hargreaves, S., Kell, S.P., Amri, A., Street, K., Shehadeh, A., Piggin, J. & Konopka, J.,
2012. Temperate forage and pulse legume genetic gap analysis. Bocconea 24: 5-36.
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(Mimosoideae, Leguminosae) from Southern South America and ecological and taxonomic
relationships. Caryologia 64 (2): 201-212.

Morales, M. & Fortunato, R.H. 2010. Novedades taxonómicas y nomenclaturales en Mimosa serie
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for Africans. International Journal of AgriScience Vol. 3(1): xxx-xxx,

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ITEM OF INTEREST
Professor H. Ohashi
Herbarium TUS, Tohoku University Botanical Garden, Japan; building inaugurated on 24 Apr. 1987; Salix
babylonica form. rokkaku Kimura (type tree) at the entrance; Cryptomeria japonica (Thunb. ex L.f.) D. Don
behind (ca. 380 years old). Academic home of Legume systematists: H. Ohashi, Y. Tateishi, Y. Endo, T. Nemoto,
T. Kajita, B.H. Choi, Y. Iokawa, B.Ye, and X.Y. Zhu.
Editor end Note: I hope you have a great 2013 and look forward to Bean Bag issue number 60 –
with all good wishes, Lourdes Rico