From forest to field: perennial fruit crop domestication

AJ Miller, BL Gross - American journal of botany, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Archaeological and genetic analyses of seed‐propagated annual
crops have greatly advanced our understanding of plant domestication and evolution …

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 …

A reference genome for common bean and genome-wide analysis of dual domestications

J Schmutz, PE McClean, S Mamidi, GA Wu… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important grain legume for human
consumption and has a role in sustainable agriculture owing to its ability to fix atmospheric …

Mesoamerican origin of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is revealed by sequence data

E Bitocchi, L Nanni, E Bellucci… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Knowledge about the origins and evolution of crop species represents an important
prerequisite for efficient conservation and use of existing plant materials. This study was …

Races of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris, Fabaceae)

SP Singh, P Gepts, DG Debouck - Economic botany, 1991 - JSTOR
Evidence for genetic diversity in cultivated common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is reviewed.
Multivariate statistical analyses of morphological, agronomic, and molecular data, as well as …

Genetic signals of origin, spread, and introgression in a large sample of maize landraces

J Van Heerwaarden, J Doebley… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The last two decades have seen important advances in our knowledge of maize
domestication, thanks in part to the contributions of genetic data. Genetic studies have …

Molecular analysis of the parallel domestication of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in Mesoamerica and the Andes

E Bitocchi, E Bellucci, A Giardini, D Rau… - New …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We have studied the nucleotide diversity of common bean, P haseolus vulgaris, which is
characterized by two independent domestications in two geographically distinct areas …

A review of breeding objectives, genomic resources, and marker-assisted methods in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

T Assefa, A Assibi Mahama, AV Brown, EKS Cannon… - Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), one of the most important grain legume crops for
direct human consumption, faces many challenges as a crop. Domesticated from wild …

Crop domestication as a long-term selection experiment

P Gepts - Plant breeding reviews, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
I. INTRODUCTION II. THE DOMESTICATION PROCESS III. CENTERS OF AGRICULTURAL
ORIGINS IV. TIME FRAME OF DOMESTICATION V. THE DOMESTICATION SYNDROME VI …

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

PH Graham, P Ranalli - Field Crops Research, 1997 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the origins and general botany of Phaseolus vulgaris, the different
cropping systems used for bean production, the agronomic and biological factors which …