Among the most brilliant of flowering trees are those in the Fabaceae, or legume, family of plants. Imagine, for example, a tree with long golden chains of five-petaled flowers, so profuse that they ...

In general, beans are known to be a low-maintenance crop that's easy to grow, even in containers. This legume is less common, ...

A root nodule on a legume tree where symbiotic bacteria fix nitrogen from the atmosphere into a form of nitrogen that the trees can use to grow. Legume trees are abundant in tropical forests and can ...

Scientists have elucidated how NodD recognizes flavonoids by resolving, for the first time, the high-resolution crystal structure of the complex formed between the NodD protein of pea rhizobia and the ...