Peas and vetches are the most important plant species for production of forages, where they can be used as hay, haylage or silage. Due to their specific characteristics - tendency lodging high buffering capacity, usually grown in a mixture with small grains support crops prevent reduce lodging, at same time obtain biomass suitable ensiling process. In pure crops, peas often green feeds hay stag...

Cereal Chem. 82(5):554-558 Field peas (Pisum salivum) were evaluated as a potential feedstock for ethanol production. Ground peas were dry-milled and separated into starch, protein, and fibrous fractions by air classification. Starch-enriched fractions prepared from whole peas and dehulled peas contained 73.717c wt and 77.8% wt starch, respectively, a nearly two-fold enrichment compared with wh...

Aqueous extracts of air-dried ground peas% can provide a good mediuim for the growth and production of penicillin byPeniciUium notatum (Cook&Tulloch, 1944). The experiments to be described were carried out to determine what constituents of the pea were responsible for this effect. Although other vegetable extracts give a similar effect the pea lias been chosen as it is a readily available mater...

Several photosystems control leaf expansion in Alaska peas (Pisum sativum). Phytochrome is known to control expansion in dark-grown peas. But plants exposed briefly to red light are insensitive to phytochrome, an insensitivity that is itself phytochrome-produced. Leaf expansion in these plants is promoted by 440 or 630 nm of light (probably mediated by protochlorophyll). Plants grown in white f...

A new growth inhibitor, tentatively named pisumin, which increased under red light and remained at initial level or decreased when dwarf pea (Pisum sativum L. cv Progress No. 9) seedlings were transferred from red light to dark, has been isolated in the form of a colorless powder from light-exposed epicotyls of dwarf peas, and characterized partially as an aliphatic carboxylic acid (molecular w...

 Gregor Mendel. Conducted hybridization experiments on garden peas for seven years (1856 – 1863) and proposed laws of inheritance.  Mendel conducted artificial pollination/cross pollination experiments using several true-breeding pea lines.  A true breeding line is one that, having undergone continuous self-pollination for several generations.  Mendel selected 14 true-breeding peas’ plant v...