The family Fabaceae, or bean family, is the second big family of flowering plants in the world with 650 genus and18000 species includes many crops useful for food, forage, fiber, wood and ornamental purposes. In this family, a few legumes such as chickpea, soybean, fababean, fenugreek, lentil, pea etc. are consumed as grain legumes. The grain legumes are plants used as food in the form of unripe pods, mature seeds or immature dry seeds, directly or indirectly