white bean (phaseolus vulgaris l.) is an important legume food crop in iran and many other countries. it is grown on 110248 hectares in iran, mostly in fars, lorestan, markazi, zanjan and chahar mahal-va-bakhtiari provinces. due to its high value in human nutrition and exportation, considering that most grown cultivars of iran are the runner type beans, with low marketability values and suscept...

The sensory value of dry beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is one of the traits that most influence consumer’s choices. It is often argued that the process of genetic improvement might reduce the sensory value of dry beans through negative genetic correlations among traits or through the remnants of the donor genome that are interspersed with the recipient genome through backcrossing. However, ther...

A periodic comparison of cultivars is essential to assess selection gains, determine deficiencies, define objectives, and set breeding priorities. Our objective was to assess the progress, or lack thereof, achieved in improving yield, plant type, maturity, and resistance to major bacterial, fungal, and viral diseases of dry bean of the western USA from 1918 to 1998. Twentyfive great northern, p...

Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) is a tripartite, positive-sense RNA plant virus in the genus Cucumovirus, family Bromoviridae. This virus is one of the most economically important viruses affecting several crop plant species and it has one of the widest host ranges among the characterized viruses. Recently, snap bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) crops in Wisconsin have ex...

Soybean aphid, Aphis glycines Matsumura, remains the key insect pest of soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merrill, in the north-central United States. Management of this pest has relied primarily on scouting and application of foliar insecticides based on an economic threshold (ET) of 250 aphids per plant. This review explains why this ET remains valid for soybean aphid management, despite changes in c...