Grain Legumes

Evolution and Genetic Resources

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Hardcover | 18 June 1990

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This volume provides a wide-ranging survey of all the major grain legumes from the standpoint of both their evolution and their potential for further development and improvement as economically important food crops. The legumes have a vital role to play in both the developed and developing worlds by providing an alternative nitrogen source to the artificial fertilizers, which, although boosting cereal yields, often have had adverse environmental effects. The grain legumes are a valuable crop possessing the ability to fix nitrogen by Rhizobium biosynthesis and thus contribute to the natural nitrogen cycle. The book surveys the changes which have occurred in the course of domestication of the plants which have evolved into our pulse crops and oilseed legume crops. The author then discusses the benefits to be gained from evaluation and improvement of grain legume genetic resources. It is through this comparative approach that the overall potential of these crops is highlighted.

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"Smartt does an excellent job of pulling together the available knowledge on grain legumes and realistically outlines future research objectives and potentials for these plants. This book will serve a useful purpose as a reference for all interested in grain legumes and crop domestication." Daniel Harder, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology "...I highly recommend this monograph on grain legume genetic resources and evolution both as a reference and as a textbook for upper class undergraduates and graduate classes in genetic resources conservation and crop evolution." Paul Gepts, Economic Botany

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: biosystematics of the legumes
The role of grain legumes in the human economy
The groundnut, Arachis hypogaea L.
The New World pulses: Phaseolus species
The Old World pulses: Vigna species
Pulses of the classical world
The other legume oilseeds
The pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.)
Minor grain legumes
Germplasm resources and the future
References
Postscript
Supplementary references
Author index
General index
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Grain Legumes

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