"Legumes are vital because they provide fixed nitrogen for agricultural soils (the recent substitution of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers certainly being a temporary expedient), and because they furnish most of the protein for human food in high-population parts of the world. Man's dependence on grasses and legumes has been coeval."
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Duane Isely
Duane Isely (October 24, 1918 – December 7, 2000) was an American professor of botany.
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