Acknowledgements

• The Center for Medicago Genomics Research  is a multi divisional program and is financially supported by The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.
   
  
• Callum Bell, Jennifer Weller, Peter Hraber, Bruno Sobral, Bill Beavis, and Mark Waugh are acknowledged for their contributions to MGI
   
  
• Pedro Mendes and Jennifer Weller are acknowledged for their extensive contributions to the high-end bioinformatics portions of the project, as well as participation as joint collaborators on the NSF-funded program An Integrated Approach to Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics in a Model Legume (DBI-0109732).
   
  
• Kenneth Korth (University of Arkansas) contributed to EST analysis.
   
  
• Bruce Roe (University of Oklahoma) is directing the M. truncatula whole-genome sequencing program. This project is supported by the National Science Foundation (DBI-0109732 and DBI-0110206), Forage Genetics International, and the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.
   
  
• The Center for Medicago Genomics Research is partially funded by a NSF Plant Genome Research Program Award (#0109732). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. 

Program Contact & Information Dr. Gregory D. May The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation P.O. Box 2180 Ardmore, OK, USA    73402 email: gdmay@noble.org phone: 580.221.7391