Evaluation of the Balkan Phaseolus coccineus L. genetic resources

Abstract

In the last decade several thousand accessions were collected in different parts of Europe and are stored in national gene banks; at present the Phaseolus Database as part of the EURISCO Web catalogue contains aver 46000 records. Main objective of the study (ECPGR_SMARTLEG project) was proper phenotypic and genetic evaluation of European Phaseolus accessions with emphasis to Phaseolus coccineus germplasm providing new data to EURISCO and AEGIS. During the project, we provided three different types of datasets including morpho-agronomic traits of plants, morphometric seed characteristics and genetic profiles of P. coccineus accessions from eight European geographic origins; Slovenia, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Italy, Slovakia, Macedonia and Austria.