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| Stoddard, Frederick L.; Hovinen, Simo; Kontturi, Markku; Lindström, Kristina; Nykänen, Arja. |
| Legumes are important in world agriculture, providing biologically fixed nitrogen, breaking cereal disease cycles and contributing locally grown food and feed, including forage. Pea and faba bean were grown by early farmers in Finland, with remains dated to 500 BC. Landraces of pea and faba bean were gradually replaced by better adapted, higher quality materials for food use. While grain legumes have been restricted by their long growing seasons to the south of the country, red, white and alsike clovers are native throughout and have long been used in leys for grazing, hay and silage. Breeding programmes released many cultivars of these crops during the 1900s, particularly pea and red clover. A.I. Virtanen earned the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Crop combinations and interactions. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/16623/1/stoddard.pdf |
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