Promoting breeding of new mung bean genotypes for sustainable agriculture and food security
2015
E12445
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Promoting breeding of new mung bean genotypes for sustainable agriculture and food security
Publication Date
2015
Call Number
E12445
Summary
Improvement and exploitation of species and new varieties are key factors in improving and developing of agriculture and economy in general. New plant varieties with higher nutritional quality and production yields, disease and pest resistant, able to perform in suboptimal conditions (drought, less fertile soil, low intake of fertilizers and pesticides) and suitable to ecological system are increasingly required by farmers and consumers. In our country there are no approved or patented varieties for Phaseolus aureus species. The present work presents the results of a rigorous program designed to improve the species potential use, to obtain genotypes with shorts periods of vegetation and superior qualitative and agronomic features, suitable to perform in conventional and ecological system in our climate condition. Our developed genotypes exhibit superior value, in term of yield, vegetation period, protein content, oil content and sprouting capacity.
Journal Citation
19(1):21-23, JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Contact Information
harvest@worldveg.org
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