Alfalfa ( Medicago sativaL.), with high nutritional value and good palatability, is a perennial herb of the legume family Alfalfa and one of the most widely distributed and longest cultivated forages in the world, an important forage resource for livestock development and known as the "king of forages". Genomic data of alfalfa have been published and are important to provide valuable genetic resources for researchers and breeders to improve the traits of this species. For this purpose, we have developed a comprehensive and easy-to-use web-based database, AlfalfaGEDB.
In this database, genomic and transcriptomic data of two cultivars of alfalfa (XinJiangDaYe and ZhongmuNo.1) were collected and analyzed. Based on the development and application of CRISPR gene editing technology, we made predictions of sgRNA targets. To better explore the functions of alfalfa, this database also provides some bioinformatics tools: LAST, Heatmap, Network, TFs/TRs, Protein Kinases... We will continue to update this database!