International Legume Conference« Legume Systematics for Next
Generation »Wrap-Up Session

Sendai, Japan
28 August – 2 September 2018

Important Achievements at ILC7
• Generic delimitations are being clarified• New species are being collected• Incredible sampling of legumes across the world
tropics (plot data, etc.)• Integration of phylogenies with ecological, geographic& morphological data
• In the phylogenomics and genomics symposia we saw
an unprecedented accumulation of molecularsequence data for adressing phylogenetic, evolutionary
and ecological questions from the family to thepopulation level• Strong engagement and vibrant international
collaboration

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Advances in Legume Systematics 13Papers due:
15 December 2018
Editors: Tadashi Kajita,Colin Hughes, Ashley Egan& Daniel Murphy
Questions:colin.hughes@systbot.uzh.chandDaniel.Murphy@rbg.vic.gov.au

Opportunities and Responsabilities• Responsibilities to deliver top-notch scientificdata, knowledge and information to the wider
world beyond (legume) systematics• Opportunities to raise funds for research• We could seek support for larger international
collaborative funding initiatives• There is tremendous scope to obtain support forlegume-community initiatives to address thechallenges and tasks that come with working on alarge, prominent, and centrally important plantfamilyChallenges & Tasks for the Legume
Systematics Community• A complete generic-level phylogeny as the basis for a new tribal
and/or phylogenetic classification• Maintaining and updating Legumes of the World• A complete species-level phylogeny – a much more challenging
but ultimately very exciting possibility for understanding theevolution of legume diversity• An updated and dynamic species checklist• A trait database – morphology & functional traits• A geographical distribution database (specimen occurrencedata)• The integration of these into an information system for thefuture – nomenclature, geography, images, DNA data, traits…
• Close involvement in forthcoming legume genome sequencing
initiatives

Supporting the next generation oflegume systematics community• Fostering the next generation of legume systematists• The legume community has been highly collaborative,
coherent and very active over the last 40 years since
the first ILC in 1978, as evidenced by the series of 7
successful ILCs, ILDIS, the Advances in Legume
Systematics series• That activity can be maintained by making sure someof the talented young people who have presented theirwork at this conference obtain stable positions in key
institutions• We must continue to share data, samples, methods,etc.
• We must continue to collaborate internationallyTowards a Legume Systematics
PortalWorkshop on Big Biodiversity Data organised
byYasuhiro Kubota (University of the Ryukyus)&Félix Forest (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)geographic distribution

identification guides

scientific literature

florasclassifications/phylogenies

Scientific Nametaxonomy

associated taxa
genomes

imagesspecimens

data sets

experts/scientists

videosobservations

The scientific name is central to a portal. Numerous data sets can be attached tothe name. Some data sets are easily accessible, others will require more work.

What do we want in this portal?
• An up-to-date taxonomy and species list is central to a taxonomic
portal– Dynamic (can be changed easily)– Can be easily contributed to• Can be developed based on existing lists– ILDIS– Tropicos– Scientific Literature– PlantList / Plants of the World Online (POWO) – the list is 95% complete forlegume species• Species occurrence data – curated and shared, using DarwinCorefields• Ecological and environmental map layers• Morphological and trait data – initiatives discussed and underway
by Leo Borges• Phylogenies – initiative proposed by Joe Miller• Images• …. What else?

Outcome of workshop• Provisional Working Group: Yasuhiro Kubota,Stephen Boatwright, Leonardo Borges, BenteKlitgaard, Daniel Murphy, Jer-Ming Hu, AnneBruneau, Patrick Herendeen, Ashley Egan, RongZhang• A possible opinion paper for ALS 13 on how todevelop a platform – LPWG style paper on interestand importance of a legume systematics portal• Should we focus on particular clades to initiate theportal?
• Working Group Meeting?
• Others interested? Please contact:
anne.bruneau@umontreal.ca

The LPWG has been successful in its proposal
for a new classification of the legumes,endorsed by the legume community and now
more widely accepted

What should be the next LPWG goals?
• A robust generic backbone phylogeny• Tribal classifications for major clades(Caesalpinioideae, Papilionoideae???)• Better sampled species level phylogenies• Ultimate goal is a complete species levelphylogeny

OpenTree of LifeJoe Miller
http://www.biodiversityintelligence.com/• Supertree approach using:• Comprehensive taxonomy• Curated & published phylogenies• Over 2.3 million taxa in the tree
• All input phylogenies are peer-reviewed andpublishedopentreeoflife.org

OpenTree of the Fabaceae• Currently 23,410 tips in the tree
• Mostly based on taxonomy• Almost no structure• Goal:– Make the best supertree of the legumes
using this platform– Use LPWG tree as backbone– Genus/species level trees are critical

Why of interest?
• A visualization of the Leguminosae phylogeny(see PhyloLink)• Link GBIF spatial data to the tree
• Integrate trait data on the phylogeny• Overlay phylogeny on environmental datalayers• Use subtrees in other analyses

How?
• Upload and curate legume phylogenies fromTreebase and other sources• In progress, need input on phylogenies that canbe added to OpenTree• If interested in participating or sending trees:– https://www.biodiversityintelligence.com/fabaceaeopentree– joe@acaciamulga.net– Joe Millerbeanbag.kew@gmail.com

Editor: Brigitte Marazzi

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International Legume Conferences – 1978 to 20181978 – ILC1
Kew
U.K.

1986 – ILC2
Missouri
U.S.A.

1992 – ILC3
Kew
U.K.

2001 – ILC4
Canberra
Australia

2010 – ILC5
Buenos Aires
Argentina

2018 – ILC7SendaiJapan

2013 – ILC6
Johannesburg
South Africa

International Legume Conferences – 1978 to 2018

ILC 8 – WHERE & WHEN????

1978 – ILC1
Kew
U.K.

1986 – ILC2
Missouri
U.S.A.

1992 – ILC3
Kew
U.K.

2001 – ILC4
Canberra
Australia

2010 – ILC5
Buenos Aires
Argentina

2018 – ILC7
SendaiJapan

2013 – ILC6Johannesburg
South Africa

International Legume Conference ILC8Italo Cotta Coutinho (Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil)

Italo Cotta Coutinho and other colleagues haveproposed to host the next ILC in Brazil in 2022. Thissuggestion was fully endorsed by the ILC7 participants.

Thank you!

Thank you!
• The legume community wishes to pass on animmense thank you to the organisers of the 7thInternational Legume Conference, particularly
Tadashi Kajita, Firouzeh Javadi & Yoshihisa Suyama• We thank them for the punctuality and fabulousorganisation during the week
• For an interesting and fantastic conference dinner• For their patience and smiles with all the language
challenges• For their amazing hospitality, Japanese kindness
and friendship