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Definition of codes used to identify advanced CIAT lines derived from different research projects and the names of breeders who developed them.


For further information contact: ciat-bean@cgiar.org


Code Breedera Meaning of codeb
A SPS Advanced line for America
ABA SPS Bush bean, white alubia
ACV JD Climbing bean for Central America, small red
AFR JK Africa
AND JK Andean Region
ANT JK Anthracnose
APN SRT/SEB Apion
ARA SPS Resistance to anthracnose
ASC JK Ascochyta project
BAN SRT Bayo bean (coastal areas)
BAT SRT Bean adapted to tropics
BLM SRT Medium-sized white
BRB JK Bush bean resistant to black root
BRC JK Climbing bean resistant to black root
BRU JK Bruchid project
CAB JK White marrow (caballero)
CAL JK Red pinto (calima)
CAN SRT/SEB Canario bean for the Pacific coast
CAP JK Canario bush bean (azufrado peruano)
CAR JK Climbing cranberry (cargamanto)
COS SRT Other light colors (cream, golden)
CTC SPS Coscorrons and tortolas (Chile)
CVP JK Canario climbing bean (Peru)
DFA JK Bush bean tolerant of low P (Darién, Colombia)
DFV JK Climbing bean tolerant of low P (Darién)
DOR SRT/SEB Bean golden mosaic virus
DRK JK Dark Red Kidney
EMP SRT/JK Empoasca project
FAS SPS Beans for acid soils
FAT SPS Late-maturing bush bean
FEB SPS Experimental bush bean
FET SPS Experimental climbing bean
FOI JK Intermediate response to day length
FOS SPS Tolerant of low P for Brazil
FOT JK Neutral response to day length
HAB JK Bush snap bean
HAL JD/JK Halo blight project
HAV JK Climbing snap bean
KEM SPS Epilachna for Mexico
KID SRT/SEB Kidney bean
LAS JK Bean adapted to ICA La Selva (2500 m.a.s.l.)
LIB JK Liborino bean
LRK JK Light Red Kidney
LSA ICA/JD/JK Bush bean adapted to ICA La Selva
LSH ICA/JD/JK Snap bean adapted to ICA La Selva
MAM SPS For monoculture on the Mexican high plateau
MAR SPS Resistance to angular leaf spot
MAT SPS Climbing bean for the Mexican high plateau
MCD JK Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV): dominant gene I
MCM JK Multiple resistance to BCMV
MCR JK Recessive genes for resistance to BCMV
MES JK Mesoamerican grain type
MKL SEB Miss Kelly
MOC SRT/SEB BCMV: IVT project and backcrosses to IVT
MUS SRT/SEB Web blight project
NAB SRT/SEB Black bean for Argentina, Brazil
NAC SRT/SEB Black bean for Costa Rica
NAG SRT/SEB Black bean for Guatemala
OBA ICA/JK Bush bean (Obonuco, 2800 m.a.s.l.)
OBN ICA/JK Climbing bean (Obonuco)
PAC SRT California small white (panamito)
PAD SRT/SEB Pompadour (mottled red), medium-sized grain, determinate growth habit
PAI SRT/SEB Pompadour, indeterminate growth habit
PAN SRT Navy bean (panamito)
PAR SPS Pre-VEF for Argentina
PAT SRT Pompadour, bush bean for temperate climate
PBZ SPS Pre-VEF for Brazil
PEF SPS Early maturing experimental beans
PMX SPS Pre-VEF for Mexico
POA JK Pompadour, bush bean
POT SPS Yield potential for Brazil
PRE SRT/SEB Early maturing bean
PVA SPS Pre-VEF, Andean bean
RAA JK Radical, bush bean
RAB SRT/SEB Shiny red, bush bean for monoculture
RAD JK Radical, climbing bean
RAO SRT/SEB Opaque red, bush bean for monoculture
RAZ JK Resistant to Zabrotes subfasciatus
REC JK Recessive gene for BCMV
REN JK Yield potential project
RGB SRT Shiny red, with stakes
RIZ SRT Rhizobium, increased N fixation
ROS SEB Reds from Brazil (rosinha, roxinho, roxão, roxo)
RUS SRT Rust project
RWR ISAR/MD Adapted to Rwanda
SAN JK Sangretoro
SEA SPS Advanced drought-resistant line
SEL SRT/SEB Lines from old files
SEQ JK Drought-tolerant lines
SUG JK Sugar bean (red speckled beans)
TAC SPS Improved for stem traits
TAR SPS Improved yield
TIF SPS Talash International Bean (Iran Project)
TLP SEB Tolerant of low P
V JHCD Climbing
VAF JK Climbing bean for Africa (all colors)
VCA JD Climbing bean of multi-colored grain for highlands
VCB JD Climbing bean of multi-colored grain for lowlands
VNA JD Black, climbing bean for highlands
VNB JD Black, climbing bean for lowlands
VOC JK Climbing bean for warm areas
VRA JD Red, climbing bean for highlands
VRB JD Red, climbing bean for lowlands
WAF SPS West Asia Fasolia (beans for West Asia)
XAN SRT/SEB Xanthomonas project
ZAA JD Bush bean for Africa and the Andean Region
ZAV JD Climbing bean for Africa and the Andean Region
a. SEB: Stephen E. Beebe
JD: Jeremy Davis
MD: Michael Dessert
JK: Julia Kornegay
SPS: Shree Pal Singh
SRT: Stephen R. Temple
ICA: Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario
ISAR: Rwanda Institute of Agronomic Sciences
b. IVT: Institut Veredeling, Tuinbouwge (Netherlands)
VEF: Bean Team Nursery


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