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Legumes and cereals are the two most important flowering plants used in agriculture. Legumes are useful as human and animal food, as wood, and as soil-improving components of agricultural and agroforestry systems.
The use of legumes to diversify cropping systems and simultaneously support spe-cies conservation and food security requires an understanding of the underlying mechanisms that generate and maintain diverse and productive agroecosystems. As dicotyledonous, mass-flowering and nitrogen-fixing plants, many legume
31 paź 2023 · Young plant residues decompose faster than mature plant residues and give K, N, and P to soils, making legume inclusion before blooming more advantageous than after flowering. The
20 wrz 2022 · Sprouts, microgreens, and edible flowers constitute upcoming specialty crops increasingly esteemed for their sensory contribution to global gastronomy and their bioactive composition that potentially enhances human health.
11 sie 2021 · Given their protein-rich profile, this paper will focus on grain legumes that are used for human food purposes within European countries—such as beans, peas, chickpeas, lentils, lupin, soybean, and exclude forage legumes used just for animal feed production, such as alfalfa and clover.
2 lut 2016 · In this chapter, we describe the importance of four vegetable legumes (garden peas, purple-hulled peas, snap beans, and yard-long beans) and a range of more minor legume crops as vegetables in today’s world. Each crop is highlighted for its value in the local diets of peoples of different regions and the cropping systems to which they belong.
The legume family (Fabaceae) is one of the largest families of flowering plants. The unifying feature of the family is the characteristic legume pod with a double row of ovules. The family is also characterized by flowers with five fused sepals and five petals. The wide diversity of about 20,000 species comes from adaptability,
