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This Phaseolus vulgaris assembly for the Andean line G19833 was made available by Phytozome as a PRE-RELEASE and has been deprecated in favour of the newest published release available here. This pre-release assembly was used in our Common Bean 454 SNP Discovery Project to anchor the reads for SNP

The first objective is to identify markers to facilitate marker-assisted selection for resistance to anthracnose for western Canadian beans.  Using two different association mapping strategies, we will identify markers associated with resistance to Colletotrichum lindemuthianum  [Read more]

In the food industry, seeds which are used whole – like peas, dry beans, and soybeans – need to have a good hydration capacity, or the ability to absorb water, in order to be desired by consumers. Seeds that do not absorb water are called stone seeds / hard seeds and are considered a negative [Read more]

The production of the dry bean is currently being shifted out of its traditional growing regions and to be replaced with the soybean, which is perceived by farmers to be a less risky crop. In short season growing regions like Saskatchewan and Alberta, where the soybean does not reliably mature, high [Read more]

Eight germplasm were chosen for this project:CDC WM-2, BAT 93, Expresso, Higuera-E, Jalo EEP-558, PI 430219, SMARC1N-PN1, and W6-15578. Tissue was collected from multiple plants at various developmental stages for RNA extraction which led to the generation of 3'-anchored cDNA libraries using the [Read more]