Orphan, or underutilized, legumes are domesticated legumes with useful properties, but with
less importance than major world crops due to use and supply constraints. However, they …

Grain legumes are an important source of nutrition and income for billions of consumers and
farmers around the world. However, the low productivity of new legume varieties, due to the …

Abstract The United Nations declared 2016 as the International Year of Pulses (grain
legumes) under the banner 'nutritious seeds for a sustainable future'. A second green …

Underutilized/orphan legumes provide food and nutritional security to resource-poor rural
populations during periods of drought and extreme hunger, thus, saving millions of lives …

Legumes, being angiosperm's third-largest family as well as the second major crop family,
contributes beyond 33% of human dietary proteins. The advent of the global food crisis …

Recent focus on indigenous knowledge of plant species that have long been consumed by
mankind, but not having a prominent place in organized agriculture, has raised the profile of …

The morama bean is an underutilized leguminous oilseed native to the Kalahari Desert and
neighboring sandy regions of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa (Limpopo, North-West …

Plants have developed morphological, physiological, biochemical, cellular, and molecular
mechanisms to survive in drought-stricken environments with little or no water caused by …

Tylosema esculentum (marama bean) is being developed as a possible crop for resource-
poor farmers in arid regions of Southern Africa. As part of the molecular characterization of …

Marama bean is a drought-tolerant oilseed legume. Isolated marama bean protein has high
foaming capacity, strong dough extensibility and good elasticity characteristics. The dough …