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Studies on the establishment of white-flowered faba bean (Vicia faba)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

F. Kantar ,
P. D. Hebblethwaite  and
J. Pilbeam
F. Kantar
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UK
P. D. Hebblethwaite
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UK
J. Pilbeam
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UK
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Summary

Early reports on new, nutritionally superior, white-flowered (zero-tannin) faba bean cultivars indicated that they may show poor emergence under field conditions. The field emergence of 23 winter and spring type white and coloured-flowered lines and cultivars was investigated in relation to fungicidal seed dressing in 1989/1990 and 1990/1991 in the UK. These trials showed no definite emergence problems in white-flowered faba beans, probably because of favourable soil and weather conditions. Further experiments were therefore conducted in relation to emergence under controlled environmental conditions. The emergence of lines near-isogenic except for flower colour (the coloured line SCI v. the white line SWI) was investigated in relation to a range of soil moisture levels (soil water potential (SWP) ranging from −1·02 to 0·0 MPa (waterlogged)) and to three temperatures (22, 12 and 5°C) in a clay loam soil. Emergence was rapid and high at the SWP range from −0·52 to −0·24 MPa in both lines, depending on temperature. Any decrease or increase in SWP beyond this range resulted in a substantial reduction and delay in emergence in both lines. Emergence of SWI was more adversely affected than SCI when the temperature decreased from 22 to 5 °C. The emergence of six winter and six spring lines/cultivars was tested in relation to fungicidal seed dressing using wet soil (-0·06 MPa) at 5 °C under controlled environmental conditions. White-flowered winter lines (WWI, Polar and WD) and the spring line, SWI, had poor emergence (56–85%) compared to coloured types (86–98%). In some lines there was a slight improvement when using a fungicidal seed dressing.

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Crops and Soils
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 123 , Issue 3 , December 1994 , pp. 341 - 348
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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