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taxid: 3885
genus: Phaseolus 
species: vulgaris
abbrev: phavu 
commonName: common bean 
description: "Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) was likely domesticated independently both in Central America and in the Andes, from distinct wild gene pools that exist in the two regions. Beans were also carried into North America and were grown by Native Americans there for many centuries. They were carried to Europe by early explorers of the New World, and have undergone about 500 years of additional domestication and selection in Europe. The species has great agricultural variety, and is of critical importance as a high-protein food across the world."

strains:
  - identifier: G19833    
    accession: G19833
    name: G19833
    origin: Peru
    description: "Andean landrace G19833 was selected for genome sequencing partly due to its resistance to numerous diseases, including bean rust (Uromyces appendiculatus), as well as anthracnose, angular leaf spot, Aschochyta blight, and the bean golden mosaic and bean common mosaic viruses (Hurtado-Gonzales et al., 2017; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usdaarsfacpub/1664/). This accession has also been used to generate populations for mapping traits such as phosphorous acquisition and agronomic performance."
    resources: 
      - name: LIS SequenceServer
        URL: "https://sequenceserver.legumeinfo.org/"
        description: "SequenceServer BLAST against the Phaseolus vulgaris genome v2.0"
  - identifier: UI111
    accession: PI 549535, PI 599011, PI 599012, PI 599013
    name: UI111
    origin: US National Plant Germplasm System
    description: "Bean variety UI111 is a Mesomarican line that has been used in numerous breeding projects and trait-mapping studies.It is a pinto-type bean, with indeterminate climbing habit."
  - identifier: LaborOvalle
    accession: Labor Ovalle
    name: Labor Ovalle
    origin: Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology (ICTA)
    description: "Guatemalan highlands landrace improved by selection; round-seeded Bolonilio market class bean."
  - identifier: OACRex
    accession: OACRex
    name: OAC Rex
    origin: Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
    description: "OAC Rex is a white-seeded, high-yielding cultivar intended for production in Canada, and is the first common bean cultivar resistant to common bacterial blight."
  - identifier: 5-593
    accession: PI 608674
    name: 5-593
    origin: US National Plant Germplasm System
    description: "5-593 has been used by Dr. Mark Bassett at the University of Florida as the recipient parent to introgress many genes for seed coat color and pattern, flower color, and other morphological traits typically to the backcross three generation."
  - identifier: BAT93
    accession: BAT93
    name: BAT 93
    origin: CIAT, Colombia
    description: "Common bean genotype BAT 93, a representative of the Mesoamerican gene pool, was bred for high productivity in tropical conditions at the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Colombia (Voysest, 1983, 2000). It was selected from a double cross population developed between landraces. BAT 93 was selected for mutagenesis (Table 1) because it is one of the parents of the core common bean mapping population (Freyre et al., 1998), it has been used in the generation of a large BAC library (Kami et al., 2006), and it is amenable for production in temperate and tropical environments and under growth chamber, greenhouse, or field conditions (Blair et al., 2005). BAT 93 also possesses several desirable characteristics (Table 1), including disease resistance (Sanchez-Valdez et al., 2004). Seed of BAT 93 were carefully generated for the experiment from single plant selections and confirmed for homogeneity using simple sequence repeat marker analysis at CIAT."
  - identifier: Flavert
    accession: Flavert
    name: Flavert
    origin: France
    description: "Flavert is a flageolet bean originating in France."
  - identifier: Hystyle
    accession: Hystyle
    name: Hystyle
    origin: USA
    description: "The common bean variety Hystyle has a combination of consistently high yield and the highest level of Bacterial Brown Spot resistance of any commercial variety, which has made it the most used processing bean in the US."