Solutions by crop

Biological programs for eight legume crops — peanut, soybean, common bean, cowpea, pigeon pea, mung bean, black gram, and alfalfa.

• Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) — A leading oilseed and food legume worldwide, and the crop most exposed to aflatoxin — judged against some of the strictest safety limits in the food trade.
• Soybean (Glycine max) — The world’s most-grown legume and a cornerstone protein and oil crop, with a high nitrogen demand that biological fixation can largely meet.
• Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) — The single largest pulse crop (dry beans are about a third of global pulse production) and a daily protein staple across Latin America and Africa.
• Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) — A drought-tolerant staple across West Africa and the semi-arid tropics, and a protein backbone for hundreds of millions of people.
• Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan) — A resilient, deep-rooted legume central to farming systems in India and East Africa. India alone grows about 63% of the world’s pigeon pea.
• Mung Bean (Vigna radiata) — A fast-maturing pulse, often ready in ~60–70 days, prized for rotations and as a protein-rich food across Asia.
• Black Gram (Vigna mungo) — A major pulse across India and South Asia, central to food supply and to the soil-fertility phase of cereal rotations.
• Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) — The world’s leading forage legume — the highest-yielding perennial hay and feed crop, and one of the strongest biological nitrogen fixers of any legume, central to dairy and livestock systems.