Morphological Seed Characterization of Common (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and Runner (Phaseolus coccineus L.) Bean Germplasm: A Slovenian Gene Bank Example.

ABSTRACT: Genetic resources comprised of 953 accessions of common (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and 47 accessions of runner (Phaseolus coccineus L.) bean from the national Slovene gene bank were characterized using fourteen morphological seed descriptors. Seeds of each accession were evaluated for six quantitative characteristics: seed length, seed thickness, seed width, seed length/width ratio, seed width/thickness ratio, and 100 or 10 seed weight. Furthermore, seeds were evaluated using eight qualitative characteristics: seed colour; number of seed colours; primary/main seed colour; predominant secondary seed colour; distribution of secondary seed colour; seed veining; seed shape; and seed colour (primary and secondary) and coat pattern. For each, common, and runner bean collection, first

SUBMITTER: Sinkovic L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6354170 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature