Genetic vulnerability refers to (sometimes catastrophic) actual or potential losses in the
production of a crop (in quantity and/or quality), attributable to spatial or temporal reduction …

Background Modern civilization depends on only a few plant species for its nourishment.
These crops were derived via several thousands of years of human selection that …

Biocultural diversity is the ever-evolving and irreplaceable sum total of all living organisms
inhabiting the Earth. It plays a significant role in sustainable productivity and ecosystem …

Background Hybridisation and introgression play key roles in the evolutionary history of
animal species. They are commonly observed within several orders in wild birds. The …

Key message Karyotypes evolve through numerical and structural chromosome
rearrangements. We show that Phaseolus leptostachyus, a wild bean, underwent a rapid …

Knowledge is limited about the level of bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity of
seeds from bred lines of common beans developed from interspecific crosses using four …

The genus Phaseolus, native to the Americas, is composed of more than eighty wild species,
five of which were domesticated in pre-Columbian times. Since the beginning of …

Phaseolus species are cultivated worldwide as a primary food source for human
consumption. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and runner bean (Phaseolus …

This work presents an updated list of the species belonging to the genus Phaseolus
following its definition of 1978; it is the outcome of the study of eighty-six herbaria and forty …

High-throughput phenoty** brings new opportunities for detailed genebank accessions
characterization based on image-processing techniques and data analysis using machine …