AGR 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cowpea, Pigeon Pea, Vigna Subterranea

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Lesson 1: poor people have a starch-rich diet but are protein deficient. Essential amino acids (ones that humans must eat cannot make) Isoleucine leucine lysine methionine phenylalanine threonine tryptophan valine histidine tyrosine. Unfortunately, the seeds (endosperm) of cereal crops like maize, wheat and rice are deficient in lysine and tryptophan. Lesson 2 organic nitrogen is required to make amino acids and is required for many of the major molecules that make up life including dna, chlorophyll, etc. Why?-- all required to make carbon more biochemically reactive so that they can participate in making larger structures in the cell: carbon more neutral element, nitrogen pull carbon together to make a stronger bond. Organic nitrogen is needed by plants as a fertilizer, limiting. Very stable, has a triple bond harder to pull apart. Lesson 4: evolution created an enzyme, nitrogenase, that can convert inorganic n2 gas into organic nitrogen, ammonia (nh3). It can break the triple bond in n2 gas.

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