What is the importance of leguminous plants?
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There is a large number of plantsknown as leguminous plants. ... They are able to take nitrogen, one of the most important plant foods, from the air while all other plants have to rely on nitrogen available in the soil. This has an important consequence: They do not compete with other crops for nitrogen.
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Leguminous crops like peas, beans, gram, pulses etc have rhizobium bacteria in their roots.
These bacteria have the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable form of nitrogen.
The rhizobium bacteria and leguminous crops live in symbiotic relationship.
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