Legum example sentences

Most commonly, the nitrogen-fixing bacteria are found in the roots of legumes (generally the plants which give us pulses) in special structures called rootnodules.Being leguminous crops, all these crops except arhar help in restoring soil fertility by fixing nitrogen from the air.Most of the pulses (dals) are obtained from leguminous plants.So it lives in the roots of gram, peas, moong beans and other legumes and provides them with nitrogen.These are present in the nodules of the roots of leguminous plants.Earlier, farmers in northern India used to grow legumes as fodder in one season and wheat in the next season.They do not need to add nitrogen fertiliser to the soil in which leguminous plants are grown.