Green Bean Breeding and Evaluation

Objectives:

 

  1. Breed Bush Blue Lake green bean varieties with high economic yield and improved plant architecture.
  2. Improve pod characteristics including straightness, color, smoothness, texture, flavor and quality retention, and combine with delayed seed size development.
  3. Incorporate white mold resistance and improve root rot tolerance while maintaining resistance to bean common mosaic virus.
  4. Develop a molecular marker map to facilitate marker-assisted selection of desirable horticultural traits.
  5. Evaluate novel genetic traits of potential benefit.

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