legume
Fenugreek is a leguminous plant from western Asia.
Like many leguminous crops, pulses play a key role in crop rotation.
There are rows of dried leguminous things past their eat-by date.

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Types of plant
acanthus
air plant
amaranth
Andromeda
angiosperm
early
emergent
evergreen
fiddlehead
grower
mossy
mugwort
mustard
non-hardy
non-legume
spleenwort
starter plug
succulent
sundew
tenderness

Examples of leguminous

leguminous
Organic potato production is typically characterized by extended rotations involving leguminous crop green manures sometimes combined with organic amendments.
Snout beetles were monitored during the 2000 rainy season in replicated trials consisting of fallows of these leguminous species.
Kinetic parameters of nitrogen mineralization rates of leguminous crops incorporated into soil.
We also evaluated the amount of nitrogen potentially available from fixation by leguminous cover crops used as fertilizer.
In the present study, only one leguminous plant species (cowpea) was used and egg size differences up to 18% were recorded.
Data from temperate and tropical agroecosystems suggest that leguminous cover crops could fix enough nitrogen to replace the amount of synthetic fertilizer currently in use.
Below optimum bean yields were realized, particularly in the bean-fallow intercrops, possibly due to competition for space and soil nutrients by these two leguminous species.
Lipoxygenases occur in vegetative tissues, but also accumulate in various seeds, and especially in leguminous seeds.
Register of nodulation reports for leguminous trees and other arboreal genera with nitrogen fixing members.
However, inclusion of leguminous materials and/or chicken manure will be necessary to meet the nitrogen and phosphorus requirements of the farms.
The nutrient supplying capacity of banana residues in combination with leguminous materials and chicken manure was investigated in composting studies.
Distribution of rhizobia in leguminous plants surveyed by phylogenetic identification.
The paper discusses some key factors influencing adoption of the leguminous cover crop technology, including seed availability.
In addition to allelopathy, chemical residuemediated effects may include nutrient sequestration or release, particularly that of nitrogen in the case of leguminous cover crops36.
Although several studies have been conducted about the composting process of crop residues, very few have been conducted on banana residue in combination with leguminous materials and chicken manure.
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