Growth habit is one of the most important domestication traits in dry bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.). In the U.S. for example, Type II indeterminate upright plant varieties have allowed farmers to switch from historic two-pass harvest to one-pass direct harvest. Previous work suggested a stem diameter of 5.6 mm as threshold to select Type II architecture genotypes suitable for direct combining. This study aimed to validate the...

The Middle American rust resistance gene Ur-11 present in common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) confers resistance to all but one known race of the pathogen Uromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Unger. Even though progress has been made in understanding the host–pathogen interactions between common bean and U. appendiculatus , the causal alleles of the majority of rust resistance loci, including Ur-11, remain unknown. A genome-wide a...