Objective
Marama bean (Tylosema esculentum L.), an under-utilised, perennial legume of poor, arid soils of southern Africa, produces protein- and oil-rich, edible seeds (harvested wild) and extremely large (up to 200 kg) tubers, containing protein and carbohydrate: Its foliage provides fodder. This project will assess the potential of marama as a low-input, sustainable crop for subsistence agriculture in dry areas. Distribution in the wild and biodiversity will be assessed. Agronomic trials with varying water and nitrogen will assess growth, yield and quality of grain, tubers and foliage in relation to environmental conditions. Scientific understanding of the mechanisms by which marama accumulates nitrogen and carbon, partitions assimilates to organs and withstands stresses, particularly watercress, will come from physiological and biochemical analysis of plants in experiments. The project will foster the use of marama and its agronomy.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture agronomy
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules carbohydrates
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture industrial crops fodder
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture grains and oilseeds legumes
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture vegetable growing root crops
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AL5 2JQ HARPENDEN
United Kingdom
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