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The chickpea or chick pea (Cicer arietinum) is an annual legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, [2] [3] cultivated for its edible seeds. Its different types are variously known as gram [ 4 ] [ 5 ] or Bengal gram ; [ 5 ] chhola , chhana , chana , or channa ; garbanzo [ 5 ] or garbanzo bean ; or Egyptian pea . [ 4 ]
Since the chickpea has descended from this wild plant, there is a possibility that this wild progenitor can offer other forms of edible chickpeas after domestication. In wild chickpea ( C. reticulatum ), a considerable proportion of the mature pods remain intact, and this characteristic leads to the species being described as pre-adapted to ...
Legume-based feeds improve animal performance over a diet of perennial grasses. Factors include larger consumption, faster digestion, and higher feed conversion rate. [30] The type of crop grown for animal rearing depends on the farming system.
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]
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]
Abarema Pittier; Abrus Adans.; Acacia Mill.; Acaciella Britton & Rose; Acmispon Raf.; Acosmium Schott; Acrocarpus Wight & Arn.; Adenanthera L.; Adenocarpus DC ...
Astragalus cicer, the chickpea milkvetch, [2] chick-pea milk-vetch [3] or cicer milkvetch, is a perennial flowering plant native to Eastern Europe, popularized and subsequently transported to areas in Southern Europe, North America, and South America. It produces pods that resemble those of chickpeas.
Lathyrus latifolius, the perennial peavine, perennial pea, broad-leaved everlasting-pea, [2] or just everlasting pea, is a robust, sprawling herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae. It is native to Europe but is present on other continents, such as North America and Australia, [3] where it is most often seen along ...