Phenoty** common beans for adaptation to drought

SE Beebe, IM Rao, MW Blair… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) originated in the New World and are the grain
legume of greatest production for direct human consumption. Common bean production is …

Achievements and limitations of contemporary common bean breeding using conventional and molecular approaches

JS Beaver, JM Osorno - Euphytica, 2009 - Springer
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) improvement programs have been successful using
conventional breeding methods to accomplish a wide array of important objectives. Specific …

5 Common Bean Breeding in the Tropics

S Beebe - Plant breeding reviews, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) breeding in the tropics and subtropics of Latin
America, the Caribbean and Africa has undergone significant changes in the past two …

Genetic diversity, inter-gene pool introgression and nutritional quality of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) from Central Africa

MW Blair, LF González, PM Kimani, L Butare - Theoretical and Applied …, 2010 - Springer
Abstract The Great Lakes region of Central Africa is a major producer of common beans in
Africa. The region is known for high population density and small average farm size. The …

Genetic diversity, seed size associations and population structure of a core collection of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

MW Blair, LM Díaz, HF Buendía, MC Duque - Theoretical and Applied …, 2009 - Springer
Cultivated common bean germplasm is especially diverse due to the parallel domestication
of two genepools in the Mesoamerican and Andean centers of diversity and introgression …

Genetic diversity and population structure of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) landraces from the East African highlands

A Asfaw, MW Blair, C Almekinders - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2009 - Springer
Abstract The East African highlands are a region of important common bean production and
high varietal diversity for the crop. The objective of this study was to uncover the diversity …

SNP marker diversity in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

AJ Cortés, MC Chavarro, MW Blair - Theoretical and applied genetics, 2011 - Springer
Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers have become a genetic technology of
choice because of their automation and high precision of allele calls. In this study, our goal …

Diversification and Population Structure in Common Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

MW Blair, A Soler, AJ Cortés - Plos one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Wild accessions of crops and landraces are valuable genetic resources for plant breeding
and for conserving alleles and gene combinations in planta. The primary genepool of …

Genetic diversity of Chinese common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) landraces assessed with simple sequence repeat markers

X Zhang, MW Blair, S Wang - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2008 - Springer
Common beans were introduced from the Americas to China over 400 years ago and
presently constitute an important export crop in many areas of the country. Evaluation of the …

Evolution of SSR diversity from wild types to US advanced cultivars in the Andean and Mesoamerican domestications of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)

T Gioia, G Logozzo, S Marzario, P Spagnoletti Zeuli… - Plos one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Progress in common bean breeding requires the exploitation of genetic variation among
market classes, races and gene pools. The present study was conducted to determine the …