Abstract: The main aspects of research and utilization, including the main technical problems, of legume crops in China were reviewed in this article. The ways about how to enhance the development and utilization of leguminous germplasms were analyzed. It is needed to enforce tackle key problem in quality breeding, resistance breeding, and special varietals breeding, and study on germplasm innovation of leguminous crops. Everyone should focus on production and food safety problems of leguminous crops simultaneously. A lot of leguminous germplasms were cultivated using general breeding, distant hybridization, mutation breeding, spaceflight breeding, molecular markers assistant breeding and gene engineering. In order to accelerate the development of producing and processing in legume, we recommend to increase devotion of science and technology, enhance study on layout of predominance region, industry unite and international communication. The trademark stratagem should be built up simultaneously.

Key words: leguminous plants, germplasm, genetic gene