Background: Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is valued for its high dietary protein content, degree of adaptability under extreme conditions, disease resistance and low input requirement cultivation. This species represented by several sub-species important varieties which are not well distinguishable their morphological characters. The objective present study was to determine the cultivar diffe...

The objectives of this study were to quantify the effects on nitrogen metabolism and dairy performance substituting soybean meal for proteaginous seeds or replacing raw with treated in cow diets. This was focused three seeds: faba bean, lupin pea. Two databases created, which gathered information vivo situ results, respectively. These then used analyze ruminal degradability, intestinal true dig...

Two flavonoid-deficient mutants, designated as fldL-1 and fldL-2, were isolated in EMS-mutagenized (0.15%, 10 h) M(2) progeny of grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.). Both the mutants contained total leaf flavonoid content only 20% of their mother varieties. Genetic analysis revealed monogenic recessive inheritance of the trait, controlled by two different nonallelic loci. The two mutants differed s...

The bacterial genetic diversity after long-term arable cultivation was compared with that under permanent grassland using replicated paired contrasts. Pea-nodulating Rhizobium leguminosarum populations were sampled from pairs of arable and grass sites at four locations in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Isolates were characterized using both chromosomal (16S-23S ribosomal DNA internal transcribed sp...

Root parasitic weeds are a major limiting production factor in a number of crops, and control is difficult. Genetic resistance and chemical control lead the fight, but without unequivocal success. Models that help to describe and even predict the evolution of parasitism underground are a valuable tool for herbicide applications, and even could help in breeding programs. Legumes are heavily affe...

Variation in grass architecture profoundly affects light capture, competition, and reproductive success, and is responsive to environmental factors such as crowding and nutrient limitation. Recent work in both model and crop systems has uncovered many aspects of the genetic control of branching, including conservation of the MONOCULM1 and MORE AXILLARY BRANCHING/DECREASED APICAL DOMINANCE/RAMOS...

The alkaloids such as caffeine and nicotine, which are constantly consumed by humans, were proved to be harmful for the plants also. These alkaloids alter the biological activity of living organism and lead to disturbances in the environmental sustainability within the ecosystem. So, the present literature explicates the comparative toxicity of both caffeine and nicotine in root meristems of La...

Introduction Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) is one of the important food legumes in countries like Bangladesh, India, and Ethiopia. It has desirable agronomic characteristics, notably the ability to resist adverse climatic conditions. Nutritionally it is tasty and protein-rich. However over consumption can cause an upper motor neuron disease known as neurolathyrism, an irreversible paraparesis of...

The research was conducted to determine the effect of different temperatures on germination and early seedling growth grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.). Two cultivars (Gürbüz-2001, Karadağ) a population (Pop-Diyarbakır) were used as experimental materials. study in complete randomized split-plot design with four replications chamber. rate, mean time, shoot length, root dry weight, fresh weight de...