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Breeding and Cultivation Management of Legumes, Volume II
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Breeding and Cultivation Management of Legumes, Volume II

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 2715

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Dr. Barbara Pipan

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Crop Science Department, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Hacquetova ulica 17, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: molecular biology of plants; population genetics; MAS and breeding; genomic selection; DNA markers; NGS-based applications.
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Dr. Vladimir Meglič

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Dear Colleagues,

Legumes make up one of the most diverse groups of agronomically important plant species. Exploiting their characteristics on different levels will help to improve available genetic resources by employing advanced breeding approaches and assessing promising cultivation management practices. The Special issue of Plants on Breeding and Cultivation Management of Legumes provides a unique opportunity to publish results related to key trait-related aspects for genetic, genomic, morphologic, agronomic, metabolomic, and other omics improvements, as well as the breeding of diverse legume species and their efficient cultivation management strategies. Much remains to be discovered, and it would be of great importance to contribute your scientific findings to accelerate the breeding, agronomic performance, and sustainability of different legumes around the world.

Dr. Barbara Pipan
Dr. Vladimir Meglič
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Keywords

  • legume germplasm
  • diversity
  • selection
  • superior traits
  • agronomic performance

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How Nutritious Are French Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) from the Citizen Science Experiment?
by Lovro Sinkovič, Vanja Blažica, Bojan Blažica, Vladimir Meglič and Barbara Pipan
Plants 2024, 13(2), 314; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13020314 - 20 Jan 2024
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French beans are tender, immature, edible pods that are harvested early in the plant’s growth cycle and are usually eaten cooked. The growth habits of French beans were studied for the first time in a Citizen Science experiment, and 19 pod samples were [...] Read more.
French beans are tender, immature, edible pods that are harvested early in the plant’s growth cycle and are usually eaten cooked. The growth habits of French beans were studied for the first time in a Citizen Science experiment, and 19 pod samples were collected for further nutritional analysis. Various macronutrients (e.g., protein, ash, fat, carbohydrates, amino acids) and multi-element profiles were determined. A survey of their growing habits revealed that beans are usually planted once or twice a year in May and June at a length of 5–10 m, with a predominance of dwarf beans cultivation over climbing varieties, and pest resistance and stringless pods are the most important characteristics when deciding on a bean. Homogenised freeze-dried pod samples contained 16.1–23.1% protein, 4.5–8.2% ash, 0.1–1.1% fat, and 62.0–70.6% carbohydrates and had a caloric value of 337–363 kcal/100 g. Of the 17 free amino acids identified, 8 were essential (histidine, threonine, methionine, valine, lysine, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine) and 9 were non-essential (cysteine, aspartic acid, serine, glutamic acid, glycine, arginine, alanine, proline, tyrosine); meanwhile, of the 12 elements, 5 were macroelements and 7 were microelements. The predominant free amino acids were aspartic acid, glutamic acid, and serine. In the multiple comparisons (Box and Whisker plot), the parameters caloric value and iron showed the strongest response. A very strong positive significant Pearson correlation (≥0.95) was found for five pairs of variables within the free amino acids. Comparison of the nutrient data obtained in the pods showed near-perfect or high complementarity (85.2–103.4%) with the food composition databases for half of the parameters, suggesting that the home-grown French beans from the Citizen Science experiment are a highly nutritious vegetable. Full article
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Effectiveness and Selectivity of Pre- and Post-Emergence Herbicides for Weed Control in Grain Legumes
by Angeliki Kousta, Christos Katsis, Anastasia Tsekoura and Dimosthenis Chachalis
Plants 2024, 13(2), 211; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13020211 - 11 Jan 2024
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Grain legumes represent important crops for livestock feed and contribute to novel uses in the food industry; therefore, the best cultivation practices need to be assessed. This study aimed to identify herbicides to meet the current need for controlling broadleaf weeds without phytotoxicity [...] Read more.
Grain legumes represent important crops for livestock feed and contribute to novel uses in the food industry; therefore, the best cultivation practices need to be assessed. This study aimed to identify herbicides to meet the current need for controlling broadleaf weeds without phytotoxicity in the grain legume crop per se. Field experiments were undertaken during the 2019 and 2020 growing seasons and laid out in a randomized complete block design with three replicates as follows: four grain legume crops (vetch, pea, faba bean, and white lupine) and nine pre-emergence (PRE) or post-emergence selective (POST) herbicide treatments (PRE: aclonifen, pendimethalin plus clomazone, metribuzin plus clomazone, benfluralin, terbuthylazine plus pendimethalin, S-metolachlor plus pendimethalin, flumioxazin; POST: pyridate, imazamox) alongside weedy check plots. Plant phytotoxicity, crop dry matter, yield features, weed presence, and weed dry matter were assessed during the experiments. There was differential efficacy among the nine herbicide treatments; the weed control was more effective in the case of Veronica arvensis L. and Sonchus spp. L. compared with Chenopodium album L., Sinapis arvensis L., and Silibum marianum L. regardless of the herbicide treatment. The most effective PRE herbicide was flumioxazin, which had the greatest control over the majority of weeds (>70%) resulting in the lowest total weed biomass. The second-best treatment was benfluralin and the mixture of terbuthylazine plus pendimethalin (both had only limited control in S. arvensis). The best POST herbicide was imazamox, with only limited control in S. arvensis. The tested herbicides caused low to medium and transient levels of phytotoxicity mainly in vetch and secondly in peas but not in faba beans and lupines. Concerning all weed management treatments, benfluralin resulted in the highest grain yields for all four grain legume crops during both growing seasons. Among grain legumes, vetch had the highest competitive ability against weeds, whereas peas were the least tolerant against weed competition. Full article
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Title: Comparative assessment of morphology, anatomy and phylogeny of two exceptionally rare narrow endemic Tephrosia spp. (Leguminosae) from the Indian subcontinent
Authors: Akash Vanzara1 , Gagandeep Kaur Bhambra2 , Dr. Padamnabhi S. Nagar3
Affiliation: 1, 2, 3 Department of Botany, Faculty of science, The Maharaja Sayajiro University of Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
Abstract: Leguminosae is the third most abundant family of angiosperm in the world, and have a distinct difference that serves to identify and differentiate closely related species. Among 650 genera and 18,000 species of Indian legumes, Tephrosia is the most emerged genus, of which two endangered and narrow endemic species Tephrosia jamnagarensis Sant and T. colina var. lanuginocarpa Sharma, possess a greater challenges for biological, ecological, and competitive improvement than other plants. Both the species are very unique and only found in a few isolated pockets of Gujarat around the globe. Therefore, in light of this, the present outcomes aims to understand how morphological, anatomical, and genetically both species vary based on their variability nature are contextualized in an Indian context. Studies carried out on Morpho-anatomical observations and classical taxonomic approaches, such as the axillary cyme vs terminal raceme in T. jamnagarensis vs T. colina var. lanuginocarpa Sharma, the corolla being 4.5 cm long vs 1.5 cm long, the wings being 5.5 cm long vs 1.40 cm long, the keel being 3.4 cm long vs 1.5 cm long. First, ever genetic identity of the plants was assessed by using matK gene of the rbcl chloroplast region, and phylogenetic trees were constructed using sister clade separation. Sequences of both the plant species and others species of the genus which are found in India were submitted to NCBI and the embryonic stage of seeds were used to examine seed morphology and propagation.

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