Processing, new food application and development of improved bean cultivars

Abstract

Updated indications are provided for bean utilized for processing or extrusion process. The development of domestic varieties adapted to local conditions, with high yielding capacity and seed suitable for different uses, appears a prerequisite to increase the acreage of common bean. In Italy, breeding programmes carried out in the last years led to selection of advanced breeding lines and promising cultivars suitable to different kinds of utilization.

Keywords

• phaseolus-vulgaris
• varieties
• plant-breeding
• breeding-methods
• food-technology
• leguminosae
• papilionoideae
• phaseolus
• taxa-