Welcome to the pea family, commonly called the legume family, or as horticulturalist Catherine Kleier would say, the fabulous Fabaceae family! I’d be willing to bet that everyone reading this ...

Because they are legumes, crops in the pea family (Fabaceae) such as beans are nitrogen-fixers and add nitrogen to the soil.Rotating the location where different crop families are grown can ...

Acanthoscelides obtectus (Say) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) is an economically important pest of common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Fabaceae), in the tropics and subtropics. The larvae are cryptic and ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 87, No. 2 (Jun., 2004), pp. 204-211 (8 pages) One hundred faba bean (Vicia faba L., Fabales: Fabaceae) accessions from the USDA-NSSL Seed Repository in Prosser, WA were ...