Legume Crops, Importance and Use of Bacterial Inoculation to Increase Production
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Legumes are flowering plants that produce seedpods. They have colonized several ecosystems (from rain forests and arctic/alpine regions to deserts; Schrire et al., 2005), and have been found in most of the archaeological record of plants. Early in 37 B.C. Varro said “Legumes should be planted in light soils, not so much for their own crop as for the good they do to subsequent crops” (Graham & Vance, 2003), recognizing the importance of multiple cropping and intercropping production.
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