Legume Futures Resource Centre
Welcome to the Legume Futures Resource Centre
Legume Futures is an international research project in the EU Framework Programme 7. The aim is to develop and assess legume-supported cropping systems that raise the economic and environmental performance of European agriculture. This Resource Centre is being developed within Legume Futures as a source and repository of information on legumes and legume-based cropping systems. Click the link below or use the left-hand menu to see a list of the categories in which information is collated.
Images above by Euan James show cross sections of root nodules, about 2 mm wide, of legume species Astragalus danicus (left) and Trifolium campestre (right) stained to show bacterial cells (purple).
Resource centre categories
Information in the Resource Centre may be used and downloaded free of charge. Information can be submitted to the Resource Centre both by participants in the project and by others who wish to make available or share their methodologies, experience and data.
Explore the resource centre through the live links below. other categories will become live later in 2012.
- General information
- Methodologies
- Projects on legumes - past and present
- Field study sites
- Legume species and types
- Data sets
Latest entries
- N2Africa Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
- Biodiversity sampling protocols - Legume Futures Workpackage 3
- Biodiversity and ecosystem processes in legume supported crops PhD project
- Forage legumes and multi-species grassland, PhD thesis
Contacts and further information
For further information on the Resource Centre or for advice on downloading and submitting data, please email: legumefutures@hutton.ac.uk.
For information on the Legume Futures project, please contact the coordinator:
Dr Bob Rees at Scottish Agricultural College, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 131 5354365. Email: Bob.Rees@sac.ac.uk
