Neglecting legumes has compromised human health and sustainable food production

Nature Plants

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Foyer, Christine H ^a,b   Lam, Hon Ming ^c   Nguyen, Henry T ^d   Siddique, Kadambot H M ^b   Varshney, Rajeev K ^b,e   Colmer, Timothy D ^b   Cowling, Wallace ^b   Bramley, Helen ^f   Mori, Trevor A ^b,g   Hodgson, Jonathan M ^b,g   Cooper, James W ^a   Miller, Anthony J ^h   Kunert, Karl ⁱ   Vorster, Juan ⁱ   Cullis, Christopher ^j   Ozga, Jocelyn A ^k   Wahlqvist, Mark L ^l,m   Liang, Yan ⁿ   Shou, Huixia ^o   Shi, Kai ⁿ   Yu, Jingquan ⁿ   Fodor, Nandor ^a   Kaiser, Brent N ^f   Wong, Fuk Ling ^c   Valliyodan, Babu ^d   Considine, Michael J ^b,p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^e INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^h JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^j CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^l ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^m MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁿ ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^o ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^p DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CATERING SERVICE; CROP; FABACEAE; GLOBAL HEALTH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; STANDARDS;

AGRICULTURE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FABACEAE; FOOD SUPPLY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS;

EID: 84985905047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.112     Document Type: Article

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