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Ahhhhh! A very supportive use those beans! I stand corrected on their
importance to us. They have an atmospheric job! I knew there had to be a
benefit for us somewhere. Thanks for the superb lesson. Now if we could
only fix the gas given to humans we could all breathe a lot easier. Oliva
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From: Aaron Felker
>The resulting plants are the various bean plants, the legumes. These
plants
>have in common a variably fleshy seed pod and the ability to fix (make
>accessible)atmospheric nitrogen through nodules in their roots. The
legumes
>are not the only plants that have the capability to fix nitrogen, clover
>comes to mind, for one. It is this ability to re-invigorate the soil that
>made the peanut so important economically. Cotton is extremely hard on the
>soil and will spoil land for agriculture relatively quickly, which was the
>case when the peanut was introduced. Used in rotation with cotton, the
>peanut was able to allow the southern US to remain in cotton production.
>There are other things that the legumes have in common, I'm sure, but
botany
>was quite awhile ago. Cashews, I believe are only distant relatives to
>peanuts, and are more closely related to Poison Ivy via Family name,
>Anacardiacia.
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>Aaron Felker
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