American Journal of Botany, Vol. 74, No. 7 (Jul., 1987), pp. 1122-1137 (16 pages) The seedcoats of legume seeds comprise a multifunctional organ with responsibilities for protection, attraction (some ...

Dublin, Sept. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Specialty Legume Seeds Market Opportunity, Growth Drivers, Industry Trend Analysis, and Forecast 2025-2034" report has been added to ...

Add legumes to grazing pastures to improve cow performance, soil health and forage production, says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist in Cedar County. Now is the ...

When it comes to seeding rates for winter legume cover crops, more seed doesn't necessarily mean much more biomass production and weed suppression. A recent study for specialty crop growers by the ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Trucks pulling flatbed trailers drove through a field past tall fescue. On the truck beds sat farmers and scientists — about 270 in all. Some perched atop crates, while others sat ...

Olive oil comes from the flesh around the olive pit, so technically speaking it's a fruit juice. That's right, a fruit juice that just happens to be 99 percent oil. All other oils come from seeds, ...

ICARDA lab employee Bilal Inaty cuts a lentil plant in order to test it for various diseases at the ICARDA research station in the village of Terbol in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on Dec. 21, 2022. (Dalia ...

I look out my window on a classic foggy Bay Area morning and see a family of deer chomping on some recently planted baby kale peaking its head out of the earth. “ Nooooooo!” I yell as I burst out of ...

$1.3 million to University of Charleston to develop and sustain programming for the university’s Innovation Hub. The grant includes a $1-million endowment for student scholarships and $300,000 for ...

There are efforts to develop new high-yielding and climate-resilient legumes and seeds for farmers across Africa. It involves strengthen breeding capacity, develop better seed varieties, and improve ...

Correlates of individual plant escape from seed predation were investigated for an East African population of the shrub Crotalaria pallida (Papilionaceae) in which seed mortality due to chewing ...