Morphological Seed Characterization of Common (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and Runner (Phaseolus coccineus L.) Bean Germplasm: A Slovenian Gene Bank Example
Table 2
Means or descriptive characters of different variables in 3 clusters for 953 accessions of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.).
Cluster variables
Cluster 1
Cluster 2
Cluster 3
Quantitative seed characteristic
L (mm)
12.84
13.95
13.65
T (mm)
7.36
6.91
5.68
W (mm)
8.73
8.37
7.39
L/W
1.48
1.69
1.85
W/T
1.19
1.22
1.33
100 seed weight (g)
55.15
54.41
41.06
Qualitative seed characteristic
Seed colour
Dark colour (83.70)
Colour mixture (99.58)
Light colour (75.10)
Number of seed colours
One (100.00)
Two (93.05)
One (99.59)
Primary/main seed colour
Brown (51.98)
Brown (28.63)
White (36.33)
Predominant secondary seed colour
None (99.56)
Red (29.05)
None 99.59)
Distribution of secondary seed colour
Without secondary colour
On entire seed (82.95)
Without secondary colour (99.59)
Seed veining
Weak (75.33)
Weak (73.68)
Strong (40.82)
Seed shape
Oval/circular to elliptic (55.07)
Oval/circular to elliptic (36.63)
Cuboid/elliptic (39.59)
Seed colour and coat pattern
One-colour: Brown (48.90)
Bi-colour: Pinto T type (54.53)
One-colour: White (35.92)
Number of accessions
227
475
245
, % of main characteristic within each cluster; L, seed length; T, seed thickness; W, seed width; L/W, length/width ratio; W/T, width/thickness ratio.
