Eight faba bean (Vicia faba L.) genotypes were grown at lowlands of the west-Mediterranean region of Turkey in order to estimate the broad-sense heritability for plant height, number of stems and pods per plant, seed yield, biological yield, 100-seed weight, days to flowering and maturity. The heritability for plant height, number of stems and pods per plant, seed yield, biological yield, 100-s...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) is the most widely distributed in soil and can make a symbiosis with roots of host plants to form arbuscular symbionts. Intercropping practice polyculture cropping where two or more plant species are simultaneously cultivated same field. The objective this study was define effect intercropping on density diversity spores. In study, potatoes faba beans, both wh...

The average opening rate of Vicia faba L. stomata was determined over an initial 20-minute light period following darkness. Nonsaturating intensities of broad band red and blue light had similar quantum effectiveness for the promotion of opening, whereas broad band green was about 40% and far red about 5% as effective. The opening rates under saturating red, green, and blue light were the same....

The faba bean (Vicia L. var. major) is a pulse that garnering attention for its chemical composition, which makes it suitable healthy diet. Apulian germplasm rich in local accessions at risk of genetic erosion, need evaluating and promoting. Thirteen Vicia Landraces have been analyzed relation to their productivity biochemical characteristics: protein, total phenol, flavonoid, condensate tannin...

Herbivorous insects are characterized by a great diversity of host plant associations, yet, the processes driving host range evolution are not fully understood. When herbivores encounter a novel host, local selection pressures are expected to shape traits that mediate plant–insect interactions. I show that a leafmining fly, Amauromyza flavifrons (Meigen) (Diptera: Agromyzidae), suffers a profou...

We tested the effects of several processing methods on the nutritional value of faba beans. Nutritional assessment was based on chemical analyses of legume protein content and on the digestive and metabolic utilization in rats. Protein content in Vicia faba (V. faba) was 28%, and the supply of essential amino acids, except for sulfur-containing acids, was sufficient to cover the rat’s nutrition...

Five faba bean genotypes (Vicia faba L.) were selfed for two cycles to produce S1 and S2 generations. A half-diallel cross was carried out among them in each level of inbreeding (S0, S1 and S2) to obtain 10 F1 hybrids. Parental materials as well as their respective F1s were evaluated during the winter season of 2012. All studied traits except total dry seed yield showed significant inbreeding d...