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100 g edible accessions acid Agricultural annual areas Asia bambara groundnut barley Botany breeding cereals chickpea Chromosome number 2n cm long common bean Cordeauxia edulis cowpea Crop Plant cultivars cultivated Diseases and pests durum wheat eaten Ecology edible portion Editors Eragrostis Ethiopia faba bean fertilizer fibre finger millet floret flour flowering fodder fonio forage foxtail millet germination germplasm glabrous glumes grain grass pea grown harvested India Inflorescence intercropping International Kenya kg/ha leaf legumes lemma lentil mainly maize Major references maturity million t/year mung bean Nigeria Origin and geographic Oryza panicle Panicum pearl millet Phaseolus pigeon pea Poaceae pods production proso millet protein Protologue pulses regions Research resistance rice bean root sativa seedlings soil sorghum sowing soya bean species spikelet stem Sudan t/ha temperature tepary bean tion tropical Africa types United Kingdom vegetable Vernacular names Vigna Wageningen weed West Africa wild yield
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