ARCELIN-LIKE AND alpha-AMYLASE-LIKE INHIBITOR DNA SEQUENCES COSEGREGATE WITH A NOVEL SEED STORAGE PROTEIN IN PHASEOLUS VULGARIS X P. ACUTIFOLIUS HYBRIDS

摘要

Wild tepary beans (P. acutifolius A. Gray) are a potentially valuable source of desirable traits, including drought tolerance, disease and insect resistance. So far, only common bacterial blight resistance has been transferred from tepary beans (Singhand Munoz, 1999; Munoz et al., 2004). Several accessions of wild tepary beans confer strong resistance to the two major bruchid pests of common bean. The main objective of this project is to develop common bean cultivars resistant to the bean bruchid Acanthoscelides obtectus through interspecific transfer of resistance from tepary bean.