Characterization of Nutritional Quality Traits of a Common Bean Germplasm Collection.

ABSTRACT: 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 crucial role in the development of plant-based diets, as they represent a very good source of nutritional components and improve soil fertility, such as by nitrogen fixation through symbiosis with rhizobia. The main contribution to promotion of food legumes in agroecosystems will come from plant breeding, which is guaranteed by the availability of well-characterized genetic resources. Here, we analyze seeds of 25 American and European common bean purified accessions (i.e., lines of single seed descent) for different morphological and compositional quality traits. Significant differences among the accessions and

SUBMITTER: Murube E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8306501 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature