Here's how to grow a chickpea plant for homemade hummus, chana masala, and more. Chickpeas have been grown as a food crop for at least 7,500 years. You can cultivate a chickpea plant in a pot or ...

Chickpea plant that is nitrogen-fixing and drought-tolerant blooming in a field - Sean Gallup/Getty Images Because they are primarily grown for food, you may not think of the chickpea (Cicer arietinum ...

Because they are primarily grown for food, you may not think of the chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) as a useful cover crop. Indeed, chickpea is the world's fourth largest grown legume crop, but it's ...

Hummus isn’t the only way to get the health benefits of chickpeas — try these 6 easy recipes to get your daily dose of fiber and protein. Chickpeas may be best known for their starring role in hummus.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Rhizobia may possess other plant growth-promoting mechanisms besides nitrogen fixation. These mechanisms and the tolerance to different ...