PLSC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dry Matter, Glyphosate, Saprotrophic Nutrition
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The pulses are based on visual appearance not the protein or micro bre levels. Flowering in all of the pulses has 1 - 3 owers. Lentils are high protein, bre, and vitamins. India leads world lentil production and most is consumed domestically. Canada has 33% of the lentil production that go for trade. Grow in the brown, dark brown, and moist dark brown. Hypogeal germination ( cotyledons below ground ) Lentil cotyledons remain below ground and the plant can regrow from buds if damaged. Frost later on the mature plant will help dry the seed out. Compound pinnate leaves ( 9-15 lea ets ) Indeterminate owering habit - it conditions are good it will continue to ower. They have yellow cotyledons with a green seed coat. Not very popular because they wont mature in time. Yellow cotyledon colour with a greenish mottled seed coat colour. Lentil with red cotyledons and a greyish or tan seed coat.
