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Genetic Diversity of Grain Legumes for Food and Nutritional Security
The biodiversity of grain legumes has a great important role in food and nutritional security worldwide. Grain legumes are a vital component of the...
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Genetic Diversity Assessment in Grain Legumes
Grain legumes belong to the family Leguminosae. These are principal sources of cost-effective dietary proteins in human diets which aid in reducing...
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Grain and Forage Legumes in an Arsenic-Polluted Agricultural Scenario
Grain and forage legumes have the potential to be a key component of climate-smart agriculture, even under arsenic (As) stress. Recent publications...
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Monocrop** and Intercrop** of Maize with Six Food Legumes at Malkerns in Eswatini: Their Effects on Plant Growth, Grain Yield and N2 Fixation, Measured using the 15N Natural Abundance and Ureide Techniques
Intercrop** of legumes and cereals has many benefits to both plant partners. In this study, the effect of legume-maize intercrop** on plant...
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Develo** Climate Resilient Grain and Forage Legumes
This edited book covers all aspects of grain legumes including negative impact of abiotic and biotic stresses under the changing global climate. It...
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Species, Cultivar and Seasonal Effects on Nodulation and Nitrogen Utilization of Spring Mediterranean Grain Legumes
Information on nitrogen economy of grain legumes during seed filling is critical for their sustainable cultivation in rainfed agroecosystems, but a...
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Disease Resistance and Seed Production in Two Common New England Grain Legumes
New England and the broader Northeastern region of North America have very limited grain legume production. Common beans and peas are the two leading...
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Genetic Diversity of Food Legumes and OMICS Prospective to Ensure Nutritional Security
The conventional food crops that had higher quantities of protein and essential micronutrients have been replaced by agricultural production...
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Management and breeding for rust resistance in legumes
Rust diseases are a major concern in legume production worldwide causing heavy losses especially in develo** countries that depend on grain legumes...
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Increasing wheat proteins sustainably by rotation with forage legumes
Wheat proteins provide around 20% of all human dietary protein, but their end-use qualities are determined by the form and quantity of nitrogen in...
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Coinoculation impact on plant growth promotion: a review and meta-analysis on coinoculation of rhizobia and plant growth-promoting bacilli in grain legumes
Coinoculation of symbiotic N 2 -fixing rhizobia and plant growth-promoting Bacillus on legume seeds can increase crop productivity. We collected highly...
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Orphan legumes: harnessing their potential for food, nutritional and health security through genetic approaches
Legumes, being angiosperm’s third-largest family as well as the second major crop family, contributes beyond 33% of human dietary proteins. The...
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Estimates of N accumulated below-ground by grain legumes derived using leaf or stem 15N-feeding: in search of a practical method for potential use at remote field locations
Background and aimsBelow-ground (BG) N of N 2 fixing grain legumes is an important N input to farming systems, likely underestimated as N solely in...
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Quantifying country-to-global scale nitrogen fixation for grain legumes II. Coefficients, templates and estimates for soybean, groundnut and pulses
BackgroundThe demand for estimates of biological nitrogen (N) fixation inputs in agricultural systems is driven by the need to effectively manage the...
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How Genome Editing Can Be Helpful in the Biofortification of Legumes
Legumes are consumed as a staple food in low-income countries to meet growing nutritional demands and are used as rich sources of protein and...
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Contribution of Biotechnological Approaches to Micronutrient Improvements in Legumes
Legumes are an important group food. The productivity and dietary value of legumes have declined because of climate change. For legumes, global...
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The developmental dynamics in cool season legumes with focus on chickpea
Chickpea is one of the most widely consumed grain legume world-wide. Advances in next-generation sequencing and genomics tools have led to genetic...
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Contribution of Conventional Breeding Approaches in Legumes Biofortification
Deficiency of important micronutrients in human diet is usually known as hidden hunger. Globally, malnutrition affects the life of about 2 billion...
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Advancement of Omics Approaches in Understanding the Mechanism of Salinity Tolerance in Legumes
Grain legume crops are important to meet global food security and crop rotation with legumes also enhance the soil fertility through symbiotic...
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Forage Legumes in Himalayan Region
Since the dawn of civilization and the domestication of animals and plants, forages have a special position due to the well-defined association...