Morphological Seed Characterization of Common (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and Runner (Phaseolus coccineus L.) Bean Germplasm: A Slovenian Gene Bank Example

Table 1

Summary statistics for six quantitative seed characteristics in 953 accessions of common (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and 47 accessions of runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus L.).

Characteristics	Range	Mean ± SD	CV (%)
Common bean
L (mm)	8.06 – 19.98	13.63 ± 1.86	13.63
T (mm)	4.24 – 9.56	6.70 ± 0.94	13.97
W (mm)	5.06 – 12.63	8.22 ± 1.08	13.09
L/W	1.08 – 2.64	1.69 ± 0.28	16.57
W/T	0.97 – 2.49	1.24 ± 0.16	12.64
100 seed weight (g)	19.32 – 98.39		27.06
Runner bean
L (mm)	17.50 – 27.16	20.53 ± 2.06	10.05
T (mm)	5.16 – 10.95	8.70 ± 0.89	10.25
W (mm)	10.03 – 16.46	12.71 ± 1.17	9.20
L/W	1.42 – 1.89	1.62 ± 0.10	5.88
W/T	1.27 – 2.17	1.48 ± 0.16	10.79
10 seed weight (g)	7.56 – 26.70	13.47 ± 3.45	25.62

SD, standard deviation; CV, coefficient of variation; L, seed length; T, seed thickness; W, seed width; L/W, seed length/width ratio; W/T, seed width/thickness ratio.