Lens culinaris

Common Name lentil
Genus Lens
Species culinaris
Description Lens culinaris Medik., a self-pollinated diploid (2n=14 chromosomes), has a relatively large genome size of approximately 4Gb. Lentils have been grown predominantly for human consumption. They are an excellent source of protein. Some authors consider them to be an ancient legume. Seed colors range from yellow to red-orange to green, brown and black.

Unigene/ESTs

Analysis No. of ESTs No. of Contigs No. of Singlets No. of Unigenes Sequence
Lens culinaris unigene v1 9513 961 3092 4053 Browse
Homology
Number (%) of Unigenes with a Match in Swiss-Prot Database
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2774 (68%)
Number (%) of Unigenes with a Match in TrEMBL Database
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3637 (90%)
Number (%) of Unigenes with a Match in TAIR (Arabidoposis) Database
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3489 (86%)