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1. Buckwheat is a short season crop that does well on poor, somewhat acidic soils, but the soil must be well drained.
2. Buckwheat is a short season crop that does well on low-fertility or acidic soils, but the soil must be well drained.
3. Buckwheat is one of the few seeds consumed as flour today that does not belong to the grass family ( Poaceae), and it is, thus, not actually a grain.
4. Buckwheat is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Polygonales, family Polygonaceae. (Web site)
5. Buckwheat is a psuedo-cereal used for human food.

Buckwheats

1. The Conejo Buckwheat is a perennial shrub less than 0.5 m high by 0.5-1 m wide. (Web site)
2. FIGURE 57. - field of buckwheat in full bloom.
3. Buckwheat in Russian and other slavic languages is "grechka", "grechiha".
4. Buckwheat bagels are beautiful and have a wonderful texture and composition.

Buckwheat Flour

1. The buckwheat flour gives them an earthy, mildly mushroom-like taste. (Web site)
2. Buckwheat flour is unsatisfactory for bread but is used to make pancakes ("buckwheat cakes"). (Web site)
3. In the United States, buckwheat flour is used primarily in pancake mix formulations, blended with wheat, corn, rice, or oat flour. (Web site)

Million Acres

1. By contrast, in 1970 Russia grew an estimated 4.5 million acres (18,000 km--) of buckwheat.
2. Cultivation of buckwheat has declined sharply in the US. Over a million acres (4,000 km²) were harvested in 1918.
3. In 1970 the Soviet Union grew an estimated 4.5 million acres (18,000 km--) of buckwheat, but has since been overtaken by China.

Crop

1. Buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentus Moench, Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops.
2. Mazza, G. 1992. Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum), the crop and its importance, p. (Web site)
3. Buckwheat can also be grown as a double crop after spring crops such as oats, flax, or spring canola. (Web site)

Buckwheat Greens

1. Buckwheat greens are not palatable to humans.
2. Unlike the widely consumed seeds, Buckwheat greens are toxic.
3. This green juice was made from equal parts of cucumber, celery, sunflower greens and buckwheat greens. (Web site)

Buckwheat Pancakes

1. Buckwheat pancakes, sometimes raised with yeast, are eaten in several countries. (Web site)
2. I ate buckwheat in pancakes as a child, and later in the form of kasha and soba noodles. (Web site)

Buckwheat Production

1. Common buckwheat is by far the most important buckwheat species, economically, accounting for over 90% of the world's buckwheat production. (Web site)
2. A century ago, Russia was the world leader in buckwheat production.

Tartary Buckwheat

1. Tartary buckwheat ( F. tataricum Gaertn.) or "bitter buckwheat" is also used as a crop, but it is much less common. (Web site)
2. The wild ancestor of tartary buckwheat is "F. tataricum ssp.

Dark

1. Besides the seeds, from which buckwheat flour is produced, buckwheat is also a good honey plant, producing a dark, strong monofloral honey.
2. The hull is dark brown or black, and some may be included in buckwheat flour as dark specks.
3. Besides the seeds, from which buckwheat flour is produced, buckwheat is also a good honey plant, producing a dark, mellow varietal honey.

Groats

1. Groats were the most widely used form of buckwheat worldwide during the 20th century, with consumption primarily in Russia, Ukraine and Poland.
2. In Europe it is more commonly made into buckwheat groats, often known as "kasha".
3. Buckwheat groats are the hulled, crushed kernels, which are usually cooked in a manner similar to rice. (Web site)

Wild Buckwheat

1. Buckwheat is most likely descended from wild buckwheat, though it does not share its vine-like growth habit.
2. However, while Wild Buckwheat has ocrea (stipule-sheath at nodes), true bindweeds don't.
3. Eriogonum nudum is a perennial shrub of the wild buckwheat genus which is known by the common name naked buckwheat. (Web site)

Fagopyrum

1. The crop plant, common buckwheat, is Fagopyrum esculentum. (Web site)
2. Economically the important members of the family are of the rhubarb genus ( Rheum) and the buckwheat genus ( Fagopyrum), both native to Asia. (Web site)
3. Species of buckwheat that have been commercially grown are Fagopyrum sagittatum ( F. esculentum), F. emarginatum, and F. tataricum. (Web site)
4. Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) is, b otanically speaking, not a cereal grain, but a fruit.
5. The paper describes the amino acid sequence of a 26 kDa basic subunit of 13S globulin of common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench). (Web site)

Family Polygonaceae

1. The docks and sorrels, genus Rumex L., are a genus of about 200 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbs in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae.
2. Common buckwheat ( Fagopyrum esculentum) is a plant in the genus Fagopyrum (sometimes merged into genus Polygonum) in the family Polygonaceae.
3. Buckwheat refers to plants in two genera of the family Polygonaceae: the Eurasian genus Fagopyrum, and the North American genus Eriogonum.

Buckwheat Noodles

1. Buckwheat noodles are the major use in Japan ( soba), Korea (memil guksu) and Northern Italy (pizzoccheri).
2. Buckwheat noodles with smoked salmon and dill. (Web site)
3. In Korea, before wheat flour being replaced for making guksu, the generic term referring to noodles, buckwheat noodles were widely eaten as hot dishes.

Grain

1. Despite it's name, buckwheat is neither a wheat nor a grain.
2. Bromoxynil, dicamba, Curtail M and Harmony Extra herbicides easily control volunteer buckwheat in small grain.

Eastern Europe

1. Buckwheat groats are commonly used in western Asia and eastern Europe.
2. Buckwheat flour is used in the United States, Japan, and eastern Europe; the plant is sown as a cover crop and is a food staple. (Web site)
3. Buckwheat groats are also commonly used in eastern Europe, often in form of " kasha " dish. (Web site)

Fallopia Convolvulus

1. The agricultural weed known as Wild Buckwheat ( Fallopia convolvulus) is in the same family, but not closely related to the crop species.
2. Wild buckwheat flowers are also an important source of food for these and other Lepidoptera. (Web site)
3. Fallopia convolvulus black bindweed; bear-bind; bind-corn; climbing buckwheat; corn-bind; devil's tether; ivy bindweed; wild buckwheat (syn.
4. When identifying vines, the absence of flowers is the first sign that it might be wild buckwheat, and the presence of this ocrea is final proof. (Web site)

Mount Diablo Buckwheat

1. It came into the news in 2005 when the Mount Diablo Buckwheat ( Eriogonum truncatum, believed to be extinct) was rediscovered.
2. From 1862-1936 the Mount Diablo buckwheat was found just a handful of times, for a total of seven historic records. (Web site)

Protein

1. A buckwheat protein has been found to bind cholesterol tightly.
2. Amaranth seeds, like buckwheat and quinoa, contain protein that is unusually complete for plant sources [1]. (Web site)

United States

1. In the northeastern United States, buckwheat was a common crop in the 18th and 19th centuries.
2. Cultivation of buckwheat has declined sharply in the United States. (Web site)
3. The genus Brunnichia also know as redvine or buckwheat vine are perennial woody vines native to the United States.

Seed

1. The seed coat is green or tan, which darkens buckwheat flour.
2. In the United States buckwheat is sown at the end of June or beginning of July, the amount of seed varying from 3 to 5 pecks to the acre. (Web site)
3. Buckwheat usually is sown with a grain drill or air seeder at the rate of 40 to 50 pounds of pure live seed per acre.

Baked

1. The meal of Buckwheat is also baked into crumpets, which are popular among Dutch children and are said to be nutritious and easily digested.
2. Buckwheat can also be used for a variety of baked products, including pancakes, breads, muffins, crackers, bagels, cookies, and tortillas among others. (Web site)

Feed

1. Buckwheat is sometimes used as a green manure, as a plant for erosion control, or as wildlife cover and feed. (Web site)
2. Buckwheat is often used as a feed for poultry and other livestock. (Web site)

Past

1. In the past buckwheat cultivation was also used in orchards to increase the rate of pollination.
2. Wild Buckwheat seeds are edible, and were used in the past as a food crop, with remains found in Bronze Age middens [3]. (Web site)

Nectar

1. The nectar from buckwheat flower makes a dark colored honey.
2. Bukhareva (1964) and Leshchev (1962) reported that some trace elements caused an increase in buckwheat nectar secretion and seed yields.

Late

1. Buckwheat seeding should be timed to allow plant growth to take place in warm weather and seed to form in the cool weather of late summer. (Web site)
2. Buckwheat can be planted much later than soybeans, as late as August 1st in many parts of the state. (Web site)

Dakota

1. Buckwheat is adapted to a wide variety of soils and climates, and is produced extensively in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Washington. (Web site)
2. The North Dakota State Seed Department has established market-grading factors for buckwheat.

Sarrasin

1. Buckwheat is known in French as both "bl-- noir" (as mentioned previously) and "sarrasin".
2. Engl.: buckwheat, beechwheat, brank, common buck-wheat, French wheat, saracen corn, sarrasin.

Buckwheat

1. In Korea, buckwheat starch is used to make a jelly called memilmuk.
2. In recent years, buckwheat has been used as a substitute for other grain in gluten free beer. (Web site)
3. Buckwheat is thus not related to true wheat. (Web site)
4. Buckwheat contains no gluten, and can thus be eaten by people with coeliac disease or gluten allergies.
5. It includes some common wildflowers such as the California Buckwheat ( Eriogonum fasciculatum).

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