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On the Front Cover: Legumes have been cultivated for millennia for the high-quality nutrition of their seeds and for fodder and soil improvement. Almost every part of the globe has one or more legumes associated with its cuisine, including many of the species shown here. An objective of legume genomics is to translate research advances on the intensively studied models and crops to other species, through comparative mapping, improved genome annotation, and identification of genes conditioning agronomically important traits. Included in the image are seeds of Glycine max (soybean), Phaseolus vulgaris (black bean, red bean, pinto bean, great northern bean), P. lunatus (lima bean), Vigna radiata (mung bean), V. unguiculata (cowpea), Pisum sativum (pea), Cicer arietinum (chickpea), Lens culinaris (lentil), Lupinus albus (lupin), Medicago sativa (alfalfa), and M. truncatula (barrel medic), and developing pods of P. vulgaris. Photograph contributed by Michael Grusak (USDA-ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Houston, TX, USA).