The participants of the GRAIN LEGUMES Integrated Project (GLIP) met for their annual meeting in Montpellier on 20–24 February 2006. Active discussions about progress, results and future plans were organised by workpackages within the consortium. In addition, some sessions, open to any interested parties, highlighted with examples the progress being made to integrate results and knowledge from different disciplines:
>  the development of specific tools that facilitate research coordination and integration: for gene expression studies, comparison of model and crop genomes, or integration of heterogeneous databases into web services;
>  unravelling metabolic and transcriptional seed development;
>  modelling whole plant function to understand nitrogen flux and control;
>  systems approaches for evaluating the environmental and economic impact of grain legumes.
The special report in Issue 46 of Grain Legumes magazine will provide an overview of these presentations.
On this occasion the newly created Grain Legumes Technology Transfer Platform (GL-TTP) held its first General Assembly bringing together the GLIP partners and the first GL-TTP members from outside the GLIP consortium, and open to all.

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