Promising common bean landraces from Iberian Peninsula

Abstract

Since 1987, a project involving germplasm collection, maintenance and evaluation of common bean landraces from the Iberian Peninsula has been carried on at the Misión Biológica de Galicia of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Pontevedra (Galicia, Spain) with two main goals. In short term; the project is concerned firstly with the evaluation of land races for diversity trying to identify those with promising values in agronomical and quality traits (Santalla et aI., 1995). The second goal is a long term one; aimed at preserving diversity in this species. This work shows several common bean landraces from Iberian Peninsula which deserve special attention from the breeder's point of view because of their desirable yield traits.