A whole food, plant-based diet (commonly known as WFPB) is good for our bodies and the planet. Here are all the foods you can ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Kateman covers ethical technology and consumer trends. It’s long been said that beans are...magical, so to speak. And ...

The legume family is a large and diverse group of plants that includes beans, peas, lentils, soybeans, and peanuts. Legumes are unique because they have the unusual ability to add nutrients to the ...

A registered dietitian explains what a plant-based diet plan is and the benefits of following it. Plus, breakfast, lunch, and dinner ideas. It seems like only yesterday that the wellness world was ...

Each year on February 10, the United Nations commemorates what probably sounds to many like a strange occasion: World Pulses Day. But, as a researcher focused on forgotten and underutilized legumes, I ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Peas, lentils, chickpeas, beans and peanuts: if it comes in a pod, then chances are it’s ...

Researchers from Aarhus University have led a team that has discovered one of the ways legume plants balance nitrogen acquisition from the soil with that from their bacterial symbionts. The work ...

If crops could feel envy, it’d be for legumes. Bean plants have a superpower. Or more accurately, they share one. They’ve developed symbiotic relationships with bacteria that process atmospheric ...

In an interdisciplinary study, researchers discovered that symbiotic bacteria communicate with legume plants through specific molecules and that this communication influences which bacteria grow near ...

Plants have developed mechanisms to fight pathogenic bacterial infection, but in the beneficial symbiotic association, entry of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria is accepted. The legume-symbiotic rhizobia ...

Legumes are able to grow in nitrogen-poor soils due to their ability to engage in symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. There is a great interest in using the knowledge about this symbiosis, to ...