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 …

Height from soil at the base of plant to the first pod (HFP) is an important trait for mechanical
harvesting of legume crops. To minimise the loss of pods, the HFP must be higher than that …

Food legumes are at the crossroads of many societal challenges that involve agriculture,
such as climate change and food sustainability and security. In this context, pulses have a …

Multienvironment trials (METs) are widely used to assess the performance of promising crop
germplasm. Though seldom designed to elucidate genetic mechanisms, MET data sets are …

Climate change has increased the frequency of terminal drought stress substantially in navy
bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) growing regions. This has consequently contributed to …

The population growth trend in recent decades has resulted in continuing efforts to
guarantee food security in which leguminous plants, such as the common bean (Phaseolus …

Evaluating whether the changes incorporated by common-bean breeding programs were
favorable to cultivation in a climate change scenario would be an unprecedented …

Slow‐darkening (SD) pinto beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) possess a desirable new trait,
conditioned by the recessive sd gene, that slows seed coat darkening under delayed …

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a self‐pollinated diploid crop with a small genome
size of approximately 587 million base pairs distributed along eleven chromosomes. The …

Selection during plant domestication and improvement often decreases genetic variation,
including variation that confers adaptation to local conditions. We report spatial and …