Resources Tagged: Velvet Bean

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  1. EDN Issue #47

    1995-01-19 Echo's First Agricultural Missions Conference Echos From our Network Keeping Elephants Out of the Fields Innovations in Green Manures New Information on the Toxic Substance in Velvet Beans
    Green Manures Velvet Bean

  2. Do Velvet Bean Leaves Contain L-DOPA

    1997-07-19 Lawrence Gilley in Mozambique wrote to us, wonderingwhether velvet bean leaves can be eaten by people. “Mozambicans regularly eat the leaves of cowpeas, cassava, sweet potato, amaranth and squash as well as various wild herbs. If velvet bean leaves…could be consumed and are palatable, it would be...
    allelopathic Velvet Bean L-Dopa

  3. Mucuna pruriens - Velvet Bean

    EdiblePortion: Seeds, Young pods, Leaves, Vegetable An evergreen herb of shrub. It is a climbing vine. It climbs to 6 m high. It can re-grow each year or live for a few years. Thestems are slender with long, slender branches. They are very hairy when young. The leaves are alternate with sword...
    Plant Information FPI Vegetables Edible Leaves Edible Pods Edible Seeds Vegetable Legumes Legumes as Food Legumes Mucuna pruriens Velvet Bean

  4. Knowing Your Beans in Parkinson's Disease: A Critical Assessment of Current Knowledge about Different Beans and Their Compounds in the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease and in Animal Models

    Abstract, Parkinsons Disease, 2019 This review contains a critical appraisal of current knowledge about the use of beans in both animal models and patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). The potential beneficial effects of beans in PD are increasingly being touted, not only in scientific journals...
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  5. A Definitive Guide to Velvet Bean

    -Velvet bean is grown as intercropping systems with maize,pearl millet, sorghum or sugarcane. The crop gives reliable yields in dry farming and low soil fertility conditions that do not allow the profitable cultivation of most other food legumes (Buckles et al., 1998). Velvet bean yields range...
    Velvet Bean Mucuna pruriens

  6. Mucuna pruriens utilis

    Mucuna pruriens utilis is an annual, or sometimes a short-lived perennial, climbing plant producing twining stems that usually grow around 4 metres long but can occasionally be up to 18 metres.The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and a medicine. It is cultivated in parts...
    Mucuna pruriens Velvet Bean

  7. Velvet Bean - Mucuna pruriens

    Velvet bean is a vigorous, nitrogen-fixing, bushy or vining, annual plant. The vines will climb anything available and can reach 10 m or more in length. Velvet bean is somewhat drought tolerant and is an excellent green manure or cover crop with ability to suppress weeds and provide generous...
    Macuna Cowitch Couhage Cowhage Velvet Bean Mucuna pruriens

  8. Biosphere Foundation: Report on seed trials

    2018-01-30 In 2012 Biosphere Foundation in conjunction with various local community organization and LIPI (Indonesian Institute of Science) started to carry out relevant research activities. These activities included research into agricultural improvement in the farms surrounding the National Park that...
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  9. Recipes for Velvet Beans -- and a Caution!

    1992-06-19 More discussion on consumption of Velvet Beans.
    Velvet Bean Legume Health Nutrition

  10. Some Interesting Questions About Velvet Beans

    1997-04-19 Information about seed set and nutrition of velvet beans.
    Velvet Bean Health Mucuna Nutrition