Morpho-Agronomic Characterisation of Runner Bean ( Phaseolus coccineus L.) from South-Eastern Europe

Lovro Sinkovič, Barbara Pipan, Mirjana Vasić, Marina Antić, Vida Todorović, Sonja Ivanovska, Creola Brezeanu, Jelka Šuštar-Vozlič and Vladimir Meglič
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Lovro Sinkovič: Crop Science Department, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Barbara Pipan: Crop Science Department, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Mirjana Vasić: Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Marina Antić: Faculty of Agriculture, University of Banja Luka, 78000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vida Todorović: Faculty of Agriculture, University of Banja Luka, 78000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sonja Ivanovska: Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food, ‘Ss. Cyril and Methodius’ University in Skopje, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia
Creola Brezeanu: Vegetable Research and Developments Station Bacau, 600401 Bacău, Romania
Jelka Šuštar-Vozlič: Crop Science Department, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Vladimir Meglič: Crop Science Department, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 21, 1-16

Abstract: In South-Eastern Europe, the majority of runner-bean ( Phaseolus coccineus L.) production is based on local populations grown mainly in home gardens. The local runner-bean plants are well adapted to their specific growing conditions and microclimate agro-environments, and show great morpho-agronomic diversity. Here, 142 runner-bean accessions from the five South-Eastern European countries of Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia and Romania were sown and cultivated in their respective countries and characterised using 28 quantitative and qualitative morpho-agronomic descriptors for Phaseolus spp. based on inflorescences, leaves, plants, pods and seeds. For each of these morpho-agronomic descriptors, the accessions can be classified into two or three specific groups. The highest correlations were observed within the fluorescence, seed and pod traits. The highest variability, at 76.39%, was between the different countries, representing different geographic origins, while the variability within the countries was 23.61%. Cluster analysis based on these collected morpho-agronomic data also classified the accessions into three groups according to genetic origins. The data obtained serve as useful genetic information for plant breeders for the breeding of new bean varieties for further studies of the morpho-agronomic traits of the runner bean.

Keywords: runner-bean collection; accessions; descriptors; south-eastern Europe; morpho-agronomic traits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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