Abstract:
Objectives:
1. Breed Bush Blue Lake green bean varieties with high economic yield and improved plant architecture.
2. Improve pod characteristics including straightness, color, smoothness, tex-ture, flavor and quality retention, and combine with delayed seed size de-velopment.
3. Incorporate white mold resistance and improve root rot tolerance.
4. Map genes for resistance to white mold to facilitate marker aided selec-tion.