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| Title |
Neglecting legumes has compromised human health and sustainable food production
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Nature Plants, August 2016
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| DOI | 10.1038/nplants.2016.112 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Christine H. Foyer, Hon-Ming Lam, Henry T. Nguyen, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Rajeev K. Varshney, Timothy D. Colmer, Wallace Cowling, Helen Bramley, Trevor A. Mori, Jonathan M. Hodgson, James W. Cooper, Anthony J. Miller, Karl Kunert, Juan Vorster, Christopher Cullis, Jocelyn A. Ozga, Mark L. Wahlqvist, Yan Liang, Huixia Shou, Kai Shi, Jingquan Yu, Nandor Fodor, Brent N. Kaiser, Fuk-Ling Wong, Babu Valliyodan, Michael J. Considine |
| Abstract |
The United Nations declared 2016 as the International Year of Pulses (grain legumes) under the banner 'nutritious seeds for a sustainable future'. A second green revolution is required to ensure food and nutritional security in the face of global climate change. Grain legumes provide an unparalleled solution to this problem because of their inherent capacity for symbiotic atmospheric nitrogen fixation, which provides economically sustainable advantages for farming. In addition, a legume-rich diet has health benefits for humans and livestock alike. However, grain legumes form only a minor part of most current human diets, and legume crops are greatly under-used. Food security and soil fertility could be significantly improved by greater grain legume usage and increased improvement of a range of grain legumes. The current lack of coordinated focus on grain legumes has compromised human health, nutritional security and sustainable food production. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 56 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 11 | 20% |
| United States | 5 | 9% |
| Canada | 2 | 4% |
| India | 2 | 4% |
| Australia | 2 | 4% |
| France | 2 | 4% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| South Africa | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Unknown | 24 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 35 | 63% |
| Scientists | 16 | 29% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 5% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 712 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 708 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 105 | 15% |
| Researcher | 102 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 96 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 71 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 31 | 4% |
| Other | 97 | 14% |
| Unknown | 210 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 296 | 42% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 59 | 8% |
| Environmental Science | 30 | 4% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 13 | 2% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 2% |
| Other | 64 | 9% |
| Unknown | 237 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 66. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 February 2023.
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