Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

, Volume 32, Issue 2, pp 101–110 | Cite as

Research needs to up-grade the nutritional quality of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris)

  • Ricardo Bressani
Article

Abstract

Beans are important sources of nutrients in diets based on cereal grains and starchy foods. The paper reviews briefly some of the factors of nutritional importance which are relatively well defined and which may serve as a basis for recommendations for further study and for establishing nutritional objectives for breeding.

Keywords

Plant Physiology Common Bean Nutritional Quality Starchy Food Nutritional Importance 
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© Martinus Nijhoff/Dr W. Junk Publishers 1983

Authors and Affiliations

  • Ricardo Bressani
    • 1
  1. 1.Division of Food and Agricultural SciencesInstitute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP)Guatemala, C.A.

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