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Legume Family: Forage Legumes

Meagan Schipanski The Legume Family includes many important forage crops (crops grown for hay or for grazing by …

Meagan Schipanski In this video the ability of Legume Family plants to acquire nitrogen from the atmosphere is described. …

Patrick Byrne This video explains the production of hybrid cultivars in sunflowers. The male parent produces large amounts of …

Patrick Byrne Sunflowers are one of the few crops domesticated in what is now the U.S. This video describes …

Meagan Schipanski This video describes flax, which is grown for the healthful oil of its seeds and its stem …

Meagan Schipanski This video presents several types of Sorghum bicolor: grain sorghum, forage sorghum, sudangrass, and a sudangrass x …

Meagan Schipanski Millets encompass several different species of warm-season grasses grown for their small seeds or as a forage …

Megan Schipanski This video describes popcorn, a class of corn that has been selected for its thick seed coat …

Patrick Byrne Domestication of corn from its wild ancestor teosinte occurred in Mexico about 8,000 years ago. This video …

Patrick Byrne This video explains and illustrates the plant breeding practice known as recurrent selection, a cyclical process of …