Breeding common bean for resistance to diseases: a review

SP Singh, HF Schwartz - Crop Science, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Diseases cause severe losses (20–100%) to yield and quality of common bean (Phaseolus
vulgaris L.) worldwide. Our objectives were to describe major bean disease problems in the …

Biotechnology approaches to overcome biotic and abiotic stress constraints in legumes

MA Dita, N Rispail, E Prats, D Rubiales, KB Singh - Euphytica, 2006 - Springer
Biotic and abiotic stresses cause significant yield losses in legumes and can significantly
affect their productivity. Biotechnology tools such as marker-assisted breeding, tissue …

Beans (Phaseolus spp.) – model food legumes

WJ Broughton, G Hernández, M Blair, S Beebe… - Plant and soil, 2003 - Springer
Globally, 800 million people are malnourished. Heavily subsidised farmers in rich countries
produce sufficient surplus food to feed the hungry, but not at a price the poor can afford …

Common bean breeding for resistance against biotic and abiotic stresses: from classical to MAS breeding

PN Miklas, JD Kelly, SE Beebe, MW Blair - Euphytica, 2006 - Springer
Breeding for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses of global importance in common bean
is reviewed with emphasis on development and application of marker-assisted selection …

[HTML][HTML] Agronomy, nutritional value, and medicinal application of faba bean (Vicia faba L.)

F Etemadi, M Hashemi, AV Barker, OR Zandvakili… - Horticultural Plant …, 2019 - Elsevier
Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is a cool season grain legume crop with the potential to be grown
as multi-purpose crop in areas with short growing season. Faba bean is grown in many …

Tagging and mapping of genes and QTL and molecular marker-assisted selection for traits of economic importance in bean and cowpea

JD Kelly, P Gepts, PN Miklas, DP Coyne - Field Crops Research, 2003 - Elsevier
Bean/Cowpea Collaborative Research Support Program (B/C CRSP) scientists have
successfully developed integrated consensus maps of the 11 linkage groups (LGs) in both …

Towards marker‐assisted selection in pulses: a review

J Kumar, AK Choudhary, RK Solanki, A Pratap - Plant breeding, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
With 2 figures and 2 tables Abstract Pulses are important sources of proteins in vegetarian
diet. However, genetic improvement in production and productivity of pulse crops has been …

Genomics of Phaseolus Beans, a Major Source of Dietary Protein and Micronutrients in the Tropics

P Gepts, FJL Aragão, E Barros, MW Blair… - Genomics of tropical …, 2008 - Springer
Common bean is grown and consumed principally in developing countries in Latin America,
Africa, and Asia. It is largely a subsistence crop eaten by its producers and, hence, is …

Syntenic relationships among legumes revealed using a gene-based genetic linkage map of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

M McConnell, S Mamidi, R Lee, S Chikara… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2010 - Springer
Molecular linkage maps are an important tool for gene discovery and cloning, crop
improvement, further genetic studies, studies on diversity and evolutionary history, and cross …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into marker assisted selection and its applications in plant breeding

G Kumawat, CK Kumawat, K Chandra… - … breeding-current and …, 2020 - intechopen.com
Burgeoning the human population with its required food demand created a burden on ever-
decreasing cultivated land and our food production systems. This situation prompted plant …