Nigel Cattlin / Broad bean (Vicia faba) germinating with main root and first true leaves developing from large seed and cotyledon food store

Nigel Cattlin / A broad bean seed (Vicia faba) germinating, radicle (root) just emerging from seed coat

Nigel Cattlin / A broad bean seed (Vicia faba) on soil with no sign of germination

Nigel Cattlin / Green, mature soybean (Glycine max) pods on plants with green leaves, Louisiana, USA, October

Nigel Cattlin / Green, mature soybean (Glycine max) pods on plants with green leaves, Louisiana, USA, October

Nigel Cattlin / A crop of Field or Fava beans (Vicia faba) flowering. Used for animal food and as a break crop to replace soil nitrogen levels

Nigel Cattlin / Oilseed rape (Brassica napus) seedheads with mature green pods against blue sky in a vegetable oil crop. Berkshire, England, UK.