Faba Bean

Duc, Gérard; Majstorović, Jelena; Marget, Pascal; Mikic, Aleksandar; Paull, J. G.; Redden, R. J.; Sass, O.; Stoddard, Frederick L.; Vandenberg, Albert; Vishnyakova, M. A.; Torres, A. M.

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“…Moreover, Caracuta et al (2015) have determined that faba bean was already domesticated about 10,200 years BP in the Lower Galilee, Israel. In any case, faba bean can be considered one of the earliest domesticated crops in light of numerous archeological findings in Eurasia and Africa which date back to the early Neolithic ( Duc et al, 2015a ).…”

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“…Faba bean is a cool season annual legume ( Bilalis et al, 2003 ) that forms coarse, upright, hollow, and unbranched stem(s) from the base, and grows between 0.1 and 2 m tall ( Bond et al, 1985 ; Duc et al, 2015a ; Heuzé et al, 2016 ). Stem growth is indeterminate, and some cultivars are prone to lodging.…”

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Faba Bean Cultivation – Revealing Novel Managing Practices for More Sustainable and Competitive European Cropping Systems

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Faba beans are highly nutritious because of their high protein content: they are a good source of mineral nutrients, vitamins, and numerous bioactive compounds. Equally important is the contribution of faba bean in maintaining the sustainability of agricultural systems, as it is highly efficient in the symbiotic fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. This article provides an overview of factors influencing faba bean yield and quality, and addresses the main biotic and abiotic constraints. It also reviews the factors relating to the availability of genetic material and the agronomic features of faba bean production that contribute to high yield and the improvement of European cropping systems. Emphasis is to the importance of using new high-yielding cultivars that are characterized by a high protein content, low antinutritional compound content, and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. New cultivars should combine several of these characteristics if an increased and more stable production of faba bean in specific agroecological zones is to be achieved. Considering that climate change is also gradually affecting many European regions, it is imperative to breed elite cultivars that feature a higher abiotic–biotic stress resistance and nutritional value than currently used cultivars. Improved agronomical practices for faba bean crops, such as crop establishment and plant density, fertilization and irrigation regime, weed, pest and disease management, harvesting time, and harvesting practices are also addressed, since they play a crucial role in both the production and quality of faba bean.

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“… Abstract Faba bean is a widely adapted and high-yielding legume cultivated for its protein-rich seeds 1 . However, the seeds accumulate the anti-nutritional pyrimidine glucosides vicine and convicine, which can cause haemolytic anaemia—favism—in the 400 million individuals genetically predisposed by a deficiency in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase 2 .…”

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VC1 catalyzes a key step in the biosynthesis of vicine from GTP in faba bean

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25Faba bean is a widely adapted and high-yielding legume cultivated for its protein-rich seeds 1 . 26 However, the seeds accumulate the anti-nutritional pyrimidine glucosides vicine and convicine, which 27 can cause haemolytic anaemia-favism-in the 400 million individuals genetically predisposed by a 28 deficiency in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase 2 . Here, we identify the first enzyme associated with 29 vicine and convicine biosynthesis, which we name VC1. We show that VC1 co-locates with the major QTL 30 for vicine and convicine content and that the expression of VC1 correlates highly with vicine content 31 across tissues. We also show that low-vicine varieties express a version of VC1 carrying a small, frame-32 shift insertion, and that overexpression of wild-type VC1 leads to an increase in vicine levels. VC1 33 encodes a functional GTP cyclohydrolase II, an enzyme normally involved in riboflavin biosynthesis from 34 the purine GTP. Through feeding studies, we demonstrate that GTP is a precursor of vicine both in faba 35 bean and in the distantly related plant bitter gourd. Our results reveal an unexpected biosynthetic origin 36 for vicine and convicine and pave the way for the development of faba bean cultivars that are free from 37 these anti-nutrients, providing a safe and sustainable source of dietary protein. 38 39 Main Text 40 According to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), switching to a plant-based 41 diet can reduce carbon emissions, especially in the West 3 . The suggested change in diet will require a wider 42and more varied cultivation of locally adapted protein crops. On a worldwide basis, faba bean ( Fig. 1a) has 43 the highest yield of the legumes after soybean (1.92 Mg/ha in 2013-2017) 4 and the highest seed protein 44 content of the starch-containing legumes (29% dry-matter basis) 5 . Furthermore, faba bean is adapted to 45 cool climates such as Mediterranean winters and northern European summers, where soybean performs 46 poorly 6 . The main factor restricting faba bean cultivation and consumption is the presence of the anti-47 2, Supplementary File 6). Using seed coat cDNA and PCR primers able to distinguish between VC1 and vc1, 132

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“…Faba bean (Vicia faba L.), an important grain crop legume used mainly for food and feed (Duc 1997;Duc et al 2010), has been studied genetically to date by rather diverse molecular markers (reviewed in Duc et al 2015). To date, more than 400 nuclear microsatellites (simple sequence repeats -SSRs), which are preferred molecular tools for genotyping in plant and animal species because they are hypervariable, multiallelic, co-dominant, highly reproducible and amenable to automation and high throughput genotyping (Ellegren 2004;Varshney et al 2005), have been developed for faba bean (reviewed in Duc et al 2015), but have not yet been used for largescale molecular characterization of this crop.…”

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“…To date, more than 400 nuclear microsatellites (simple sequence repeats -SSRs), which are preferred molecular tools for genotyping in plant and animal species because they are hypervariable, multiallelic, co-dominant, highly reproducible and amenable to automation and high throughput genotyping (Ellegren 2004;Varshney et al 2005), have been developed for faba bean (reviewed in Duc et al 2015), but have not yet been used for largescale molecular characterization of this crop. How-*These authors contributed equally to the work.…”

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A rapid and cost-effective procedure for delineation and utilization of genomic microsatellites for paralleled genotyping in Vicia faba

Aleksić¹,

Banović²,

Miljuš‐Ðukić³

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CZECH J GENET PLANT

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Aleksić J.M., Banović B., Miljuš-Đukić J., Jovanović Ž., Mikić A., Ćupina B., Zlatković B., Anđelković S., Spanu I., Jelić M., Maksimović V. (2015): A rapid and cost-effective procedure for delineation and utilization of genomic microsatellites for paralleled genotyping in Vicia faba. Czech J. Genet. Plant Breed., 51: 36-39.Although more than 400 microsatellite loci are currently available for Vicia faba L. (faba bean), an important food and feed grain crop legume, they have not yet been used for comprehensive molecular characterization of this crop. We report a three-step procedure for rapid and cost-effective delineation and utilization of informative genomic nuclear SSRs for paralleled genotyping in faba bean suitable also for other species: (i) pre-selection of loci generating PCR products of expected lengths which are potentially polymorphic (achieved by PCR amplification in bulked samples); (ii) exclusion of loci burdened with persistent null alleles and multilocus amplification products (based on PCR amplification of pre-selected loci in individual genotypes), and (iii) multiplexing. We demonstrate also that genomic SSRs are promising molecular tools for molecular characterization of faba bean required also for crop improvement.

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Faba Bean

Cited by 45 publications

References 102 publications

Faba Bean Cultivation – Revealing Novel Managing Practices for More Sustainable and Competitive European Cropping Systems

Faba Bean Cultivation – Revealing Novel Managing Practices for More Sustainable and Competitive European Cropping Systems

VC1 catalyzes a key step in the biosynthesis of vicine from GTP in faba bean

A rapid and cost-effective procedure for delineation and utilization of genomic microsatellites for paralleled genotyping in Vicia faba

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