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taxid: 157791
genus: Vigna
species: radiata
abbrev: vigra
commonName: mungbean
description: "Mungbean (Vigna radiata), also known as moong bean, green gram, is a fast-growing warm-season legume and has a diploid chromosome number of 2n=22. Mungbean is mainly cultivated today in China, India and Southeast Asia but can be found in dry regions within Southern Europe and United States. Mungbeans are a good source of dietary protein, folate and iron. This legume species was moved from the genus Phaseolus to Vigna and is correctly cites as Vigna radiata."

resources:
  - name: LIS SequenceServer
    URL: "https://sequenceserver.legumeinfo.org/"
    description: "SequenceServer BLAST against the Vigna radiata assembly v1.0"

strains:
  - identifier: VC1973A
    accession: GCF_000741045.1
    name: VC1973A
    origin: South Korea
    description: "Vigna radiata accession VC1973A was chosen for genome sequencing. VC1973A was developed at the AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center in 1982; since then, it has been widely grown in Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Canada and China as a heteronymous cultivar called 'Seonhwanogdu' in Korea, 'Kamphaeng Saen 1' in Thailand and 'Zhong Lu' in China. Accession description is from Kang et al., 2014 (DOI:10.1038/ncomms6443)."
  - identifier: Weilv-9
    accession: Weilv-9
    name: Weilv-9
    origin: China
    description: "Vigna radiata accession Weilv-9 is a Chinese cultivar selected for sequencing due to its high yield, stress resistance, and compact plant form. The genome assembly and annotations are described in Jia, Li et al., 2025 (DOI:10.1093/hr/uhae337)."