Translation for 'alfalfa' from English to French

alfalfa

luzerne {f} [Medicago sativa]agr.bot.T

• The livelihood of many individuals within developing countries has been negatively affected due to the rapid spread of alfalfa plant bugs, due to their migratory behaviour.
• Alfalfa is grown within the valley. Then dehydrated, it yields over 10,000 tonnes of alfalfa pellets annually for local sales and export. Wheat, Barley and Canola are also grown in the area.
• "Peronospora trifoliorum", commonly known as downy mildew of alfalfa, is an oomycete plant pathogen infecting alfalfa.
• "Uromyces striatus" is a plant pathogen causing rust in "Medicago". Alfalfa ("Medicago sativa") rust caused by "Uromyces striatus" is an important disease in many areas and is damaging to alfalfa grown for seed.
• It produces the most alfalfa crops in Brazil which earns it the nickname the "Alfalfa Capital of Brazil".

• Alfalfa seeds and sprouts contain L-canavanine. The L-canavanine in alfalfa has been linked to lupus-like symptoms in primates, including humans, and other auto-immune diseases.
• Sweetclover seedlings closely resemble those of alfalfa, but may be distinguished from alfalfa by the absence of pubescence on the underside of the leaves and by their bitter taste.
• Today, research is ongoing in the use of an alternative pollinator, the alfalfa leafcutter bee for alfalfa seed pollination.
• Established in 1973 as a private business, Falher Alfalfa (an alfalfa processing facility) was sold to a group of producers and farmers in 1978 with the same company.
• Growing forages such as alfalfa can help control the species as a weed by frequently cutting the alfalfa to add nutrients to the soil, the weeds also get cut, and have a harder time re-establishing themselves, which reduces the shoot density.

• The three-cornered alfalfa treehopper's preferred hosts include grasses, legumes, and its namesake alfalfa.
• "Acyrthosiphon kondoi", the blue alfalfa aphid or bluegreen aphid, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera.
• Alfalfa is known as the "Queen of Forages," and is the fourth most widely grown crop in the United States.
• Alfalfa ("Medicago sativa") is a perennial flowering plant and flower cultivated as a forage crop (alfalfa hay), foodstuff (alfalfa sprouts), and field nitrogen fixer in crop rotation.
• "Hypera postica", commonly known as the alfalfa weevil, is a species of beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea; it can be found in alfalfa fields throughout Europe.