Faba beans are highly nutritious because of their high protein content: they are a good
source of mineral nutrients, vitamins, and numerous bioactive compounds. Equally important …

Background Pulses are an affordable source of carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamins,
minerals, phytochemicals, and particularly proteins. These nutritious seeds greatly …

Economically, legumes (Fabaceae) represent the second most important family of crop
plants after the grass family, Poaceae. Grain legumes account for 27% of world crop …

Although the importance of the soil microbiome in mediating plant community structures and
functions has been increasingly emphasized in ecological studies, the biological processes …

Yield stability of legume crops is constrained by a number of pest and diseases. Major
diseases are rusts, powdery and downy mildews, ascochyta blights, botrytis gray molds …

Although yield and total biomass produced by annual legumes remain major objectives for
breeders, other issues such as environment-friendly, resource use efficiency including …

The faba bean (Vicia faba L.) crop often experiences drought during its growth and
development such that soil moisture deficits constrain its production. As droughts are …

Root and foot diseases severely impede grain legume cultivation worldwide. Breeding lines
with resistance against individual pathogens exist, but these resistances are often overcome …

Faba bean (Vicia faba) is a grain legume crop widely cultivated in temperate areas for food
and feed. Its productivity can be constrained by numerous diseases and pests that can be …

China is the largest producer of faba bean with a total harvested area of 8.11× 105 ha and a
total production of 1.69× 106 tons (dry beans) in 2020, accounting for 30% of the world …