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Pea (pisum in Latin) is a pulse, vegetable or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species. Carl Linnaeus gave the species the scientific name Pisum sativum in 1753 (meaning cultivated pea).
Lathyrus / ˈ l æ θ ɪ r ə s / [3] is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, and contains approximately 160 species.Commonly known as peavines or vetchlings, [1] they are native to temperate areas, with a breakdown of 52 species in Europe, 30 species in North America, 78 in Asia, 24 in tropical East Africa, and 24 in temperate South America. [4]
The family Fabaceae includes a number of plants that are common in agriculture including Glycine max , Phaseolus (beans), Pisum sativum , Cicer arietinum , Vicia faba , Medicago sativa , Arachis hypogaea , Ceratonia siliqua (carob), Trigonella foenum-graecum , and Glycyrrhiza glabra .
Pisatin (3-hydroxy-7-methoxy-4′,5′-methylenedioxy-chromanocoumarane) is the major phytoalexin made by the pea plant Pisum sativum. [1] It was the first phytoalexin to be purified [2] and chemically identified. [3] The molecular formula is C 17 H 14 O 6.
Pisum lathyrus E.H.L.Krause Lathyrus sativus , also known as grass pea , cicerchia , blue sweet pea , chickling pea , chickling vetch , Indian pea , [ 2 ] white pea [ 3 ] and white vetch , [ 4 ] is a legume (family Fabaceae ) commonly grown for human consumption and livestock feed in Asia and East Africa . [ 5 ]
Foods made with a lot of oil, butter or grease, such as fried foods and commercially baked goods, may lead to constipation, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. Processed foods
Snow peas and snap peas both belong to Macrocarpon Group, [3] [4] [1] [5] a cultivar group based on the variety Pisum sativum var. macrocarpum Ser. named in 1825. [6] It was described as having very compressed non-leathery edible pods in the original publication. The scientific name Pisum sativum var. saccharatum Ser. is often
Split peas are an agricultural or culinary preparation consisting of the dried, peeled and split seeds of Pisum sativum, the pea. [3] [4] Harvesting.