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Breeding Dry Beans (Phaseolus vulqaris L.) with Improved Cooking and Canning Quality Traits

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The end-use quality of dry beans includes nutritional properties, cooking time, and sensory characteristics. Improvement of the nutritional properties such as protein digestibility and iron bioavailability will render beans a better carrier of essential nutrients. Short cooking time will benefit consumers by requiring lower fuel input, improving their quality of life. Better sensory characteristics will increase the value of beans as a food crop. Not only those quality traits, but also agronomic traits and seed appearance would need to meet the local needs. It is time-consuming and labor-intensive to evaluate quality traits; thus, fast phenotyping methods have been explored such as NIR, simplified experimental procedures, and computational prediction. Genetic analyses to identify QTL for quality traits have been conducted, which will eventually facilitate marker-assisted selection in breeding programs. Canning is an important process to ameliorate the tastiness of beans and commercial canning processes are used to destroy or reduce these anti-nutritional factors and soften the bean texture, which results in a safe and nutritious food. Selection of high canning quality common bean has a preeminent importance and ultimately determines the acceptability of new dry bean varieties by the canning industry. The traits of canning quality are important to bean consumers and processors, and improving them will contribute to the profitability of canned bean market.

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Qureshi, A.M.I., Sadohara, R. (2019). Breeding Dry Beans (Phaseolus vulqaris L.) with Improved Cooking and Canning Quality Traits. In: Qureshi, A., Dar, Z., Wani, S. (eds) Quality Breeding in Field Crops. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04609-5_8

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