Introduction Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is one of the most important species of the Lathyrus genus. It has two subspecies : spp. asiaticus Zalk., which has small, coloured seeds, occurring mainly in the continental part of Asia and Africa and spp. europaeus Zalk. with large seeds, occurring predominantly in Central Europe and European Russia. According to Vavilov (8) its genetic centre is ...

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Background: More than 60 species of the genus Lathyrus are distributed in Southwest Asia. It is the second largest genus of the tribe Fabeae, after Vicia, in the region (and in Iran with 23 species). In the regional Flora (Flora of Turkey, FloraIranicaand flora...

Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) is an ideal pulse crop for sustainable agriculture due to its superior agronomic traits such as deep penetrating root system, resistance many biotic and abiotic stresses rich protein content. Even with these traits, the considered orphan lower productivity presence of neurotoxin, b-N-ozalyl-L-adiamino-propanoic acid (ODAP). By following classical mutational breeding...

Neurological effects have for centuries been observed to accompany in many instances the consumption of excessive amounts of lathyrus meal as food, particularly in parts of India and in the Mediterranean area in times of food scarcity. This condition, which is known as spontaneous clinical neurolathyrism, occurs chiefly in the male and is characterized principally by reflex irritability, weakne...

Earlier studies [1, 2] have demonstrated that a number of isoflavonoid (pterocarpan) phytoalexins [3] accumulate in excised, fungus-inoculated leaflets of species belonging to the genus Lathyrus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae; tribe Vicieae). Apart from pisatin (3-methoxy-6a-hydroxy-8,9-methylenedioxypterocarpan, 1), the most commonly en­ countered Lathyrus phytoalexin, small quantities of three o...

The Lathyrus species are wild relatives of cultivated peas. Results of morphological, anatomical and physiological analyses of Lathyrus latifolius L. are presented in this paper. Certain measured parameters and observed morphological characteristics are not in agreement with available literature data, whereas no reference to the winged stem width, length of inflorescence pedicle, calyx length a...