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Fabaceae

"Fabaceae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The large family of plants characterized by pods. Some are edible and some cause LATHYRISM or FAVISM and other forms of poisoning. Other species yield useful materials like gums from ACACIA and various LECTINS like PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS from PHASEOLUS. Many of them harbor NITROGEN FIXATION bacteria on their roots.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fabaceae" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Fabaceae" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 60 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2014
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