“…Isozyme variation in Phaseolus has been used to confirm the hypothesis of multiple domestication of common bean (Sprecher, 1988;Koenig & Gepts, 1989b;Singh et al, 1991c), to evaluate multilocus associations (Gepts, 1989), measure differential elimination of donor parents in crosses (Wall, 1968), measure genetic diversity between genotypes (West & Garber, 1967;Wall & Wall, 1975;Bassiri & Adams, 1978a, 1978bWeeden, 1984b;Sprecher, 1988;Koenig & Gepts, 1989b;Singh et al, 1991c), and identify the organization of common bean gene pool into different races (Singh et al, 1991a).…”