Short project description

Grain legumes are expected to increase in cultivated area in the coming years to meet the demand both for meat replacement protein sources. Grain legumes like lupin and soybean offer different qualities in grain protein, oil and antinutrient content, and cultivation of grain legumes introduces N into the cropping system via N2-fixation, which increases the N fertility for subsequent crops. Thus, increasing cropping of grain legumes offers both opportunities and challenges for our cropping systems, and the introduction of new species like soybean calls for optimization of crop management. The master project aims at examining the quality of grain legume raw materials with focus on new species (lupin and soybean) and the N flows in grain legume based cropping systems using data from ongoing experiments including potential measurements of cover crop growth

This project will support student learning about ecologically-based weed control, natural plant-produced compounds, greenhouse-based experiments and HPLC-MS analyses. It is expected that the analyses from this project will result in a peer-reviewed paper.