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Introduction In Italy, grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is one of the least common grain legumes. Today, it is not included in the official statistics of Italy and its survival is due to the praiseworthy action of a small number of farmers in very limited areas of peninsular and insular centralsouthern Italy. Since the Second World War the sharp reduction in cultivation, similarly for other grain...

Expression in Pisum and Lathyrus. Sandhya Tewari1,3, Stuart M. Brown1,2 and Brian Fristensky1 1Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, R3T 2N2, CANADA. Current address: 2Cell Biology Department, NYU Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, U.S.A. 3Confederation of Indian Industry, 23 Institutional Area, Lodi Road, New Delhi 110 003 INDIA Corresponding author:...

–Trees in many forests affect the soils and plants below their canopies. In current high-density southwestern ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests, managers have opportunities to enhance multiple ecosystem values by manipulating tree density, distribution, and canopy cover through tree thinning. I performed a study in northern Arizona ponderosa pine-Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii) forests to ...

A new species of the genus Megoura, M. lathyricola sp. n., was collected from Lathyrus japonicus subsp. japonicus (Leguminosae) in seashore areas of northern and southern Japan. This species is described and illustrated, and a revised key to the identification of the world species of Megoura is presented.

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...

Introduction Research at CLIMA has indicated that Lathyrus cicera and L. sativus (grasspea) have potential as grain legumes on 100 000 to 300 000 ha of neutral to alkaline soils in low-to-medium rainfall areas of southern Australia. They do not have serious disease problems and are envisaged as low maintenance/low cost crops for the purposes of green manure, managing herbicide resistant weeds, ...