1970-01-01 Pulses constitute a group of crops of the legume family which, with the helpof the bacteria in their root nodules, fix atmospheric nitrogen and improve the soil fertility. This book includes multiple authors writing on the group of grain crops (pulse) that are being planted in India.Pulse Crops...
1987-01-01 This volume on sesbania, a member of the legume family, brings together research and combines it with previous studies and an extensive review of the literature. Sesbania occurs both in annual and perennial forms in tropical an subtropical regions and is adaptable in a wide variety of soil...
This is one of a series of books prepared by the staff of the Food Policy and Nutrition Division on the subject of traditional food crops froom tropical areas. The series includes studies on the nutritional value, household processing and utilization of food plants growing in given ecological...
1978-01-01 Papers Presented in the 1st International Symposium on Developing the Potentials of the Winged Bean, January, 1978, Manila, Philippines. One outcome of the symposium was the discovery that the great potential offered by this plant seems to be matched only by the complex problems, biology-or...
2002-01-01 Proceedings from theApril 26-29, 2000 workshop inTegucigalpa, Hondurasbegin with a general overview of Mucuna and its food and feed uses. After that, the papers themselves appear according to the six workshop sessions: A View from the Field, Anti-Nutritional Factors in Mucuna, Mucuna as a Food,...
The purpose of this monograph was to:-(a) Review the benefits derived from planting tree legumes; (b) consider which species are important for forage; (c) analyse the important issues in improvement, management and use, (d) review the level of uptake and commercial potential of forage tree legume...
Proceedings of a trilateral workshop involving the US, Australia, and New Zealand, held in Honolulu, July 1988. Contributors discuss the problem of poor persistence of forage legumes and define research priorities for its solution.