Published in Scientific Papers. Series A. Agronomy, Vol. LXVIII, Issue 1
Written by Eliza TEODORESCU, Elena BARCANU, Ion GHERASE, Ovidia AGAPIE
Since 2010, at the Vegetable Research and Development Station (V.R.D.S.) Buzău there was initiated a program in order to preserve and valorize local bean population (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) from Eastern and South – Eastern Romania. In 2020, the germplasm collection contained over 450 accessions. This paper presents the study of 3 climbing bean accessions seeds sown. For each accession sown, there were taken into study 9 new biotypes harvested. The seeds sown represented the control variant for the analysis of the harvested biotypes. The seeds were evaluated in what it concerns quantitative and qualitative characteristics. The main colors of the control seeds were brown (V11 - medium, V2 - light and V2 - dark). The seeds harvested presented a lot of colors including white (on entire graine - 1.3.; 1.4.; 2.6.; 3.1 or as secondary color 1.5.; 1.7.; 1.8.; 2.7.; 3.3.). The mean weight of 100 seeds varied between 36.52 g (1.4.) and 70.95 g (1 Mt). The results obtained, corroborated by diversity of color and shape of the seeds harvested, show the presence of cross-pollination of climbing bean plants and increase the value of the bean germplasm collection.
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