“…The Andean cultivar AND 277, developed by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Colombia (CIAT; Arruda et al., 2008), is considered an important source of resistance to multiple diseases such as ANT, ALS, and rust and has been widely used in bean breeding programs in Brazil and Southern Africa (Arruda et al., 2008; Carvalho et al., 1998). Notably, AND 277 possesses a resistance gene cluster at Pv01 containing two strongly linked disease resistance loci Co‐1 4 and Phg‐1 (Gonçalves‐Vidigal et al., 2011), exhibiting a broad‐spectrum resistance to races 9, 23, 64, 65, 67, 73, 75, 81, 83, 87, 89, 97, 117, 119, 339, 343, 449, 453, 1033, 2047, and 3481 of C. lindemuthianum (Alzate‐Marin et al, 2003; Arruda et al., 2008; Lima Castro et al., 2017) and races 7–15, 15–7, 23–23, 31–7, 31–17, 31–31, 31–39, 47–39, 61–31, 61–41, 63–6, 63–7, 63–19, 63–23, 63–31, 63–35, 63–47, and 63–63 of Pseudocercospora griseola (Borges et al., 2013; Caixeta et al., 2005). Still, a low genetic variability is observed in the Andean common bean gene pool relative to the Mesoamerican gene pool; therefore, timely information on resistance genes in cultivars belonging to this group provides an additional variability source reservoir.…”