Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the morphological and agronomical variations among nineteen Palestinian faba bean (Vicia faba L.) landraces. And analyze their traits including: days to flowering, days to fruit setting, plant height, number of branches on main stem, lowest pod height, pod length, pod width, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, 100-seed weight and total pod weight per plant were studied. Significant differences were observed among genotypes for all characters. The nineteen faba bean lines were clustered into four groups based on six morphological and agronomic traits (pod length, pod width, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, 100-seed weight and total pod weight per plant). Several genotypes could be considered as promising material for pod production. Further studies are needed to compare the productivity of these genotypes with international varieties and identify QTL controlling the productivity of these genotypes and to study the variation between and within these genotypes at the molecular level.
Highlights
This study was conducted to investigate the morphological and agronomical variations among nineteen Palestinian faba bean (Vicia faba L.) landraces
The nineteen faba bean lines were clustered into four groups based on six morphological and agronomic traits
Other studies showed that faba bean genotypes had longer time to flowering when grown under irrigation condition than those grown under rainfed conditions (Della, 1988)
Summary
Field experiment was conducted at the experimental farm of the Faculty of Agriculture, An-Najah National University, Tulkarm (Khadouri), Palestine (32.31519o N and 35.02033o W and altitude of 75 m) during the 2009/2010 growing season in a heavy clay soil. All accessions were sown at the 1st of December 2009 in three complete randomized blocks. Each accession was represented by 10-15 seeds in a single row, 1 m long per replicate. Ten seedlings remained after removing the excess seedlings in every row
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