Project
Develop Improved Bean Cultivars for the Lowland Production Regions of Central America and the Caribbean
Details
Project Code:
LAC5-A1
Start Date:
2002
End Date:
2007
CRSP Phase:
Not Available
Budget:
Not Available
Countries:
El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua
Participants
Lead University:
University of Puerto Rico
Other Partners:
INTA (Nicaragua); DICTA (Honduras); CENTA (El Salvador) INTA (Costa Rica); CRDA (Haiti); ICTA (Guatemala);
Penn State University; Michigan State University, USDA-ARS/TARS,University of Nebraska (US); IDIAF,CEDAF (Dominican Republic); CIAT, Colombia
Principal Investigator(s):
James Beaver (US); Juan Carlos Rosas (Honduras)
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
None
Overview
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Objectives
1. Develop and release bean cultivars with improved adaptation to lowland agro-ecological zones in Central America, the Caribbean and the U.S. 2. Increase web blight, rust, and BCNM and BGYM resistance in beans using recurrent selection, inter-specific crosses and marker-assisted selection. 3. Increase resistance to terminal drought in bean lines for rain-fed bean growing areas in Central America and the Caribbean.
Outcomes
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