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Vigna
Vigna is a genus of pantropical legume herbs that includes many important food beans, such as cowpea, mung bean, adzuki bean and black gram. Most are grown as annual crops in warm, sunny conditions, and they fix nitrogen in the soil through root nodules.
Vigna is a genus of plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution. It includes some well-known cultivated species, including many types of beans. Some members of the genus were previously classified in Phaseolus. According to Hortus Third, Vigna differs from Phaseolus in biochemistry and pollen structure, and in the details of the style and stipules.
Vigna is also commonly confused with the genus Dolichos, but the two differ in stigma structure.
Root tubers of Vigna species have traditionally been used as food by the Indigenous Peoples of the Northern Territory of Australia.
Moth bean · Adzuki bean · Hairypod cowpea · Black gram · Mung bean · Bambarra groundnut · Rice bean · Catjang · Asparagus bean · Black-eyed pea · Cowpea
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