Research

Research

The research component of the BeanCAP will translate current and newly developed genomic information into the first suite of market-class-specific markers with broad utility to improve any trait of interest. The markers will be used in the first ever nation-wide project to define loci controlling a large collection of nutritionally important traits at both the species and market-class-specific levels. Each breeding program can then design the best strategy for the nutritional improvement of the market classes they work with. A genotyping service will support all public US breeding programs improving traits of local importance. Low cost markers that leverage the information from the high throughput marker screening will be developed for the long-term improvement of common bean. The marker and phenotypic data generated by this project will be organized along with all available genetic map, marker, and loci data into a database that is fully operable with other legume databases.