Analysis of Toxic/Antinutritional Constituents and in Vitro Protein Digestibility of Eleven Accessions of Velvet Bean : an Under-Utilized Food Legume

Although the common legume seeds have been playing a key role as a protein food in most of the developing countries, their production is not enough to meet the requirements of teeming human population and dwindling livestock industries. Hence, there is a need for exploitation of hitherto neglected under-utilized legumes, whose potential not yet optimally utilized, in view of the pressure on the conventional legumes arising due to increasing multiple uses.