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Reducing anti-nutritional factor and enhancing yield with advancing time of planting and zinc application in grasspea in Ethiopia.
Journal of the science of food and agriculture - 1 Jan 2018
Sarker Ashutosh, Fikre Asnake, El-Moneim Ali M Abd, Nakkoul Hani, Singh Murari
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is an important pulse crop for food, feed and sustainable crop production systems in Ethiopia. Despite its advantages in nutrition and adaptability to harsh climate and low fertile soil, it contains a neurotoxin, β-N-oxalyl-α,β-diamiono propionic acid (β-ODAP), which paralyses the lower limbs and is affected by genotypic and agronomic factors. To determine the effect of...
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