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Cristiano Weinert; Rogério Oliveira de Sousa; Edegar Mateus Bortowski; Maicon Lages Campelo; David da Silva Pacheco; Lucas Vasconcellos dos Santos; Sidnei Deuner; Glaciele Barbosa Valente; André Barros Matos; Veronica Lemos Vargas; Amanda Posselt Martins; Flávio Anastácio de Oliveira Camargo; Filipe Selau Carlos
legumes, etc ; Trifolium resupinatum; agronomy; cover crops; fallow; field experimentation; grain yield; hybrids; irrigation; nitrogen; oxygen; rice; soil; soil minerals; winter; Brazil; Show all 16 Subjects
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... In high-yield irrigated rice systems, options for legume cover crops with the capacity for biological nitrogen (N) fixation in the period between harvest have been sought. However, options are limited due to excess water and low oxygen level in the soil. The persian clover (Trifolium resupinatum) is an exception as it is a promising species due to its adaptation to waterlogged soils. Thus, the obj ...
... The quality of a forage influences the production of animals, and it can be defined in many ways. Laboratory analyses are important tools because they can be used to indicate the quality of the forages, and they represent a relatively quick way of defining their nutritive values. However, specific quality indexes are necessary to evaluate and rank forages. The quality of conventional forages is pr ...
... Proteinase inhibitors (PIs) from legumes have the potential for use as protectants in response to pests and pathogens. Legumes have evolved PIs that inhibit digestive proteinases upon herbivory resulting in delayed development, deformities, and reduced fertility of herbivorous insects. Legume PIs (serine proteinase inhibitors and cysteine proteinase inhibitors) have been overexpressed in plants to ...
legumes, etc ; Callosobruchus; Chrysomelidae; ecology; economic impact; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Pulse beetle, Callosobruchus spp. are the major threat in legume grain (pulse) storage. They are very prolific and rapid in breeding and increasing their population within short period of time. Its infestation starts either in the field on the maturing pod and is carried to the stores with the harvested crops or it originates in the storage itself. If appropriate management is not adopted, then it ...
legumes, etc ; Ormosia; botany; new species; watersheds; Colombia; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The new species Ormosia corcovada (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae, Ormosieae) from the lower Cauca River basin in NW Colombia is described and illustrated, and its taxonomic affinities are discussed. Specimens of Ormosia corcovada are usually confused with Ormosia holerythra. Both species belong to Ormosia section Unicolores but are geographically and morphologically distinct, especially with respect to ...
legumes, etc ; Vigna mungo; grain yield; landscapes; research; India; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Understanding of genotypic interactions is highly instrumental in urdbean towards identification of suitable genotypes with wider adaptability. Therefore, present experiment with 20 diverse urdbean genotypes was executed over three environments in northern hilly terrain under rainfed conditions. AMMI analysis revealed that environments (E), genotypes (G) and G x E interaction effects were found si ...
legumes, etc ; cohort studies; empirical models; gelatinization; hydrocolloids; temperature; Show all 6 Subjects
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... A Particle Cohort Study (ParCS) apparatus was used to observe the gelatinization process of individual starch granules from four common legume starches. The size vs. time was measured for a large number of granules and for the first time we quantify the intra-sample variability of individual granules, as this information is not available from the standard techniques: starch pasting and differentia ...
forage legumes; legumes, etc ; Trifolium repens; agricultural research; cultivars; drought; drought tolerance; greenhouses; intraspecific variation; leaf area; osmotic pressure; water content; water potential; New Zealand; Show all 14 Subjects
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... The drought tolerance trait osmotic adjustment has been widely studied in annual crops but has received little attention in perennial forages. White clover (Trifolium repens L.) is a forage legume of major importance with a reputation for drought susceptibility. This paper we believe is the first to publish research which measures intraspecific variability for osmotic adjustment within this specie ...
legumes, etc ; nitrogen fixation; nodulation; salinity; salt stress; soil; symbiosis; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Legume roots interact with soil bacteria rhizobia to develop nodules, de novo symbiotic root organs that host these rhizobia and are mini factories of atmospheric nitrogen fixation. Nodulation is a sophisticated developmental process and is sensitive to several abiotic factors, salinity being one of them. While salinity influences both the free-living partners, symbiosis is more vulnerable than ot ...
legumes, etc ; agroecology; animal proteins; food availability; fruits; vegetables; Mexico; Show all 7 Subjects
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... We compared seasonal changes in food availability between Maya subsistence farmers and modern householders who pursue cash earnings in rural Yucatan. Modern households encourage the substitution of vegetable for animal protein that severely affects them during scarcity season, particularly in small towns. Subsistence households have increased their legume intake when food was scarce. Seasonality h ...
legumes, etc ; Medicago truncatula; Nematoda; mutualism; ontogeny; root-knot nematodes; symbionts; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Priority effects shape the assembly of free‐living communities and host‐associated communities. However, the current literature does not fully incorporate two features of host–symbiont interactions, correlated host responses to multiple symbionts and ontogenetic changes in host responses to symbionts, leading to an incomplete picture of the role of priority effects in host‐associated communities. ...
legumes, etc ; Dalbergia; biodiversity; bioinformatics; ecological genetics; genetic variation; monophyly; new species; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Understanding the genetic changes associated with the evolution of biological diversity is of fundamental interest to molecular ecologists. The assessment of genetic variation at hundreds or thousands of unlinked genetic loci forms a sound basis to address questions ranging from micro‐ to macroevolutionary timescales, and is now possible thanks to advances in sequencing technology. Major difficult ...
legumes, etc ; crops; microalgae; nitrogen; nitrogen fixation; plant physiology; root nodules; symbiosis; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Nitrogen fixing symbioses between plants and bacteria are ancient and, while not numerous, are formed in diverse lineages of plants ranging from microalgae to angiosperms. One symbiosis stands out as the most widespread one is that between legumes and rhizobia, leading to the formation of nitrogen-fixing nodules. The legume family is one of the largest and most diverse group of plants and legumes ...
legumes, etc ; climate; ecosystems; face; land use; nitrogen fixation; phytomass; rain; soil; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Recent studies from the Hawaiian Islands showed that pedogenic thresholds demarcate domains in which rock-derived nutrient dynamics remain similar across wide variations in rainfall. These thresholds appear related to certain aspects of N cycling, but the degree to which they correspond to patterns of biological N fixation (BNF)—the dominant input of N into less-managed ecosystems—remains unclear. ...
Yuri Oliveira Feitosa; Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade; Florian Wittmann; Adriano Costa Quaresma; Angélica Faria de Resende; Rafael Leandro de Assis; Jochen Schöngart
legumes, etc ; Fabaceae; botanical composition; environmental factors; floodplains; nitrogen cycle; nutrition; trees; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Studying the patterns of dominance and species composition of legumes can contribute to more precise models for nutrient cycling, especially the N-cycle. Leguminosae is the most important family in Central Amazonian floodplain forests surrounding large rivers. The floodplains are classified as nutrient-poor (igapó) and nutrient-rich (várzea) ecosystems. In this study, we contrast patterns of domin ...
legumes, etc ; Dalea purpurea; nutritive value; rangelands; semiarid zones; temperature; North America; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Purple prairie clover (PPC, Dalea purpurea Vent.) is a grazing tolerant perennial legume with good nutritional quality and is widely distributed across North America. Deferred rotational grazing (DR) and continuous grazing (CG) are the most widespread grazing systems on North American grasslands. We conducted a 10 yr grazing study to assess the effects of environmental factors and grazing on the f ...
legumes, etc ; Ochotona curzoniae; aboveground biomass; forbs; grasses; grasslands; herbivores; plant communities; soil; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Disturbance by small burrowing herbivores often has an impact on plant aboveground biomass of grassland because it makes grasslands into a mosaic of discrete vegetated surfaces and bare soil patches. This study focuses on the plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) to investigate the effect of the disturbance by a small burrowing herbivore on plant aboveground biomass through upscaling the quadrat scale ...
legumes, etc ; Carissa macrocarpa; Moringa; diet; economic feasibility; food science; phytochemicals; plums; poverty; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Underutilized crops with enhanced nutrition and health value could be reintroduced to the diet as a promising intervention to meet global food and nutrition challenges. Considering the alarming rise in noncommunicable diseases and persistent poverty, dietary choices must be re-evaluated. Underutilized crops contribute to a nutrient-dense, economically feasible, and sustainable diets and can be inc ...
legumes, etc ; agricultural research; food security; humans; issues and policy; Brazil; Canada; India; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Food legumes, especially pulses, have a significant role in ensuring food and nutritional security of human and animal population. India is the largest producer of pulses in the world, accounting for 28% of the global pulses production. The current study evaluates the trends in research on pulses in India. The research productivity data for the period from 2000 to 2017 were extracted from Web of S ...
Sergio M. de Faria; Jens J. Ringelberg; Eduardo Gross; Erik J. M. Koenen; Domingos Cardoso; George K. D. Ametsitsi; John Akomatey; Marta Maluk; Nisha Tak; Hukam S. Gehlot; Kathryn M. Wright; Neung Teaumroong; Pongpan Songwattana; Haroldo C. de Lima; Yves Prin; Charles E. Zartman; Janet I. Sprent; Julie Ardley; Colin E. Hughes; Euan K. James
legumes, etc ; Caesalpinioideae; Faboideae; apoplast; cytoplasm; ecosystems; microsymbionts; nitrogen fixation; nodulation; phylogeny; symbiosis; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Nitrogen‐fixing symbiosis is globally important in ecosystem functioning and agriculture, yet the evolutionary history of nodulation remains the focus of considerable debate. Recent evidence suggesting a single origin of nodulation followed by massive parallel evolutionary losses raises questions about why a few lineages in the N₂‐fixing clade retained nodulation and diversified as stable nodulato ...