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Book of Abstracts <strong>First</strong> <strong>Legume</strong> <strong>Society</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> 2013: A <strong>Legume</strong> Odyssey Novi Sad, Serbia, 9-11 May 2013<br />
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A new journal on the legume research horizon - <strong>Legume</strong> Perspectives<br />
<strong>Legume</strong> Perspectives Editorial Board<br />
Mike Ambrose, Paolo Annicchiarico, Birte Boelt, Beat Boller, Ousmane Boukar, Judith Burstin, Marina Carbonaro,<br />
Branko Ćupina, Vuk ðorñević, Gérard Duc, Noel Ellis, Sara Fondevilla, Bernadette Julier, Branislav Kovačević,<br />
Kevin McPhee, Aleksandar Medović, Aleksandar Mikić, Teresa Millan, Fred Muehlbauer, Ramakrishnan Nair,<br />
Pádraig O’Kiely, Diego Rubiales (Editor-in-Chief), Christophe Salon, Marta Santalla, Petr Smýkal, Frederick L.<br />
Stoddard, Wojciech Święncicki, Richard Thompson, Rajeev Varshney, Carlota Vaz Patto, Tom Warkentin, Christine<br />
Watson, Ping Wan, Daniel Wipf<br />
Through the decades of research on various legume species and crops worldwide, its results have<br />
been published in an endless number of national and international journals and magazines dealing<br />
with various topics. It is certain that the articles on genetics, propelled by Mendel’s pioneering<br />
work, are among the most numerous, but it is also true that those on agronomy, agro-ecology, or<br />
stress tolerance were produced rather abundantly. So far, t<strong>here</strong> has not been a journal devoted<br />
specifically to legume science, except <strong>Legume</strong> Research published by the Agricultural Research<br />
Communication Centre, India. We have published our articles in several crop-specific journals,<br />
such as Bean Improvement Cooperative Annual Report, Journal of Lentil Research, Lathyrus Lathyrism<br />
Newsletter, Pisum Genetics or Soybean Genetics Newsletter: however, some of these no longer exist. A<br />
unique publication in the world of legume science, research and promotion was Grain <strong>Legume</strong>s,<br />
published by the European Association for Grain <strong>Legume</strong> Research (AEP), with 57 issues<br />
published from 1992 to 2011. With the official registration of a novel International <strong>Legume</strong><br />
<strong>Society</strong> (LS) on 1st April 2013, an initiative was born among the researchers on all legume crop<br />
groups, including grain legumes, forage legumes, soybean, tree legumes, ornamental legumes or<br />
pharmaceutical legumes, and all legume research topics, ranging from genomics, genetic<br />
resources and breeding to agronomy, agro-ecology and stress tolerance, to establish a magazinelike<br />
journal, named <strong>Legume</strong> Perspectives. Following the tradition of Grain <strong>Legume</strong>s, each of its four<br />
issues per year will be devoted to a specific legume crop or research topic, with several brief but<br />
rather informative and updated reviews supplemented by a few research articles, and important<br />
announcements for the global legume community. We are deeply convinced that <strong>Legume</strong><br />
Perspectives will serve well the members of the International <strong>Legume</strong> <strong>Society</strong> and all interested in<br />
legumes in general, and will successfully meet the criteria for an innovative, serious, useful,<br />
interesting and regularly issued publication.<br />
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