Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19973
Title: The legume-rhizobia symbiosis and assessing the need to inoculate
Contributor(s): Giller, K E (author); Herridge, David  (author)orcid ; Sprent, J I (author)
Publication Date: 2016
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19973
Abstract: Legumes are a major component of all agrarian systems throughout the world. They are particularly attractive to low input systems of agriculture because they take inert nitrogen from the air and (through rhizobia) transform it into proteins in a process that leaves no carbon footprint. But beware, legumes differ in their adaptation to infertile soils, and the right legume must be chosen for each environment. Legumes are many and varied. The grain legumes provide protein-rich food, and soybean and groundnut are also important oilseed crops (Table 1.1). Pasture or fodder legumes are important for livestock feed in various forms: in grazed systems, as feed concentrates made from their grains, or in cut-and-carry systems where animals are kept in stalls. Woody or tree legumes produce a number of useful products apart from poles and construction materials; they are important sources of feed and browse for livestock and several of them produce edible fruits. The other major uses of legumes are for soil fertility improvement, through cover crop protection of the soil from erosion, and as green manures contributing nitrogen to improve soil fertility.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Working with rhizobia, p. 15-24
Publisher: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
Place of Publication: Canberra, Australia
ISBN: 9781925436181
9781925436174
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 070302 Agronomy
070306 Crop and Pasture Nutrition
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 300403 Agronomy
300407 Crop and pasture nutrition
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 961402 Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Soils
960904 Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Land Management
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 180605 Soils
180607 Terrestrial erosion
180603 Evaluation, allocation, and impacts of land use
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://aciar.gov.au/publication/mn173
http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/229636051
Series Name: ACIAR Monograph Series
Series Number : 173
Editor: Editor(s): John Gregory Howieson and M J Dilworth
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Environmental and Rural Science

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