Among the most brilliant of flowering trees are those in the Fabaceae, or legume, family of plants. Imagine, for example, a tree with long golden chains of five-petaled flowers, so profuse that they ...

Researchers have found that nitrogen-fixing legume trees can support themselves and surrounding trees not only with increased access to nitrogen, but with other key nutrients through enhanced mineral ...

The most comprehensive study of the family tree for legumes, the plant family that includes beans, soybeans, peanuts, and many other economically important crop plants, reveals a history of ...

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If crops could feel envy, it’d be for legumes. Bean plants have a superpower. Or more ...

The classic trees of California are big. Redwoods. Monterey pines. Valley oaks. So, for those of us who live in cities but want a California native garden, where’s the giant sequoia supposed to fit?

An international team of scientists have explained how legume trees are key in liberating minerals locked in iron minerals and the benefits are passed on to nearby trees The research shows that the ...

The most comprehensive study of the family tree for legumes, the plant family that includes beans, soybeans, peanuts, and many other economically important crop plants, reveals a history of ...