Working Group "Breeding Research Faba Bean"

Vicia faba L. is a partially allogamous plant, with an intermediate level of cross- and of self-fertilization, realized by honey and bumble bees. With this reproductive behaviour, breeding methods appropriate for faba bean should be general solutions of which the methods for self-fertilizing and cross-fertilizing crops should be just extreme, marginal cases. This reasoning serves as entrance into our faba bean breeding research, an area that offers additional challenges and promises due to the bean being a legume (pulse) crop, due to its seed being food and feed in temperate and semi-arid zones and due to it being a field and a garden crop.


Current research areas:

• Molecular analysis of seed heterosis (Tobias Meitzel, in cooperation with Hans Weber IPK Gatersleben)
  
  
• Winter faba bean as an element in a maize biogas rotation (Franzi Roth, in cooperation with Rolf Rauber)
  
  
• Population structure and breeding methods in case of partial allogamy

Resently accomplished projects:

• Winter hardiness of faba bean(Mustapha Arbaoui).
  
• Organic breeding of faba bean (Lamiae Ghaouti)
  
• Heterosis of faba bean seed(Susanne Dieckmann)
  
  
  Technical staff:
  Regina Martsch
  
  
  
  An important tool: the on-field isolation cage!
  
  
  
  
  Since 1995, the following PhD theses on Vicia faba were conducted in the Plant Breeding Unit:
  
  

  • Awadallah Abdalla Abdelmula, 1999: Genetic improvement of drought tolerance in faba beans Vicia faba L. Cuvilier, Göttingen.
  
  
  • Hilke M. Riemer, 1999: Nmin nach Ernte: Genotypische Variation in aktuellem Maerial von Ackerbohnen (Vicia faba L.) und Körnererbsen Pisum sativum L.). Cuvillier Göttingen.
  
  
  • Jens Christian Vaupel, 1999: Neue CMS-Systeme für die Produktion von Minor x Major-Hybridsorten bei Vicia faba L.: Genetische und züchterische Analyse. Cuvillier Göttingen.
  
  
  • Memen Surahman, 2001: Detailed genetic analysis of a wide faba bean (Vicia faba L. cross “German x Moroccan”. Cuvillier Göttingen.
  
  
  • Anja Kramer, 2002: Untersuchungen zum biotechnologisch unterstützten Gentransfer bei der Ackerbohne Vicia faba L. Cuvillier Göttingen (betreut von C. Möllers)
  
  
  • Andi Wijaya, 2003: Towards interspecific hybridization in Vicia faba L. Cuvillier Göttingen (betreut von C. Möllers)
  
  
  • Mahmoud Mohamed Zeid, 2003: Analysis of genetic diversity based on molecular markers (AFLP) and of heterosis in faba bean Vicia faba L. Cuvillier Verlag Göttingen.
  
  
  • Seif Eldin Gasim, 2003: Winter-hardy faba bean: Applied genetic research on the reproductive mode of the European gene pool. Cuvillier Göttingen.
    
    
  • Mustapha Arbaoui, 2007: Detailed genetic analysis of faba bean
    (Vicia faba) winter-hardiness and related traits. Universität Göttingen.
    
    
  • Lamiae Ghaouti, 2007: Comparison of pure line cultivars with synthetic cultivars in local breeding of faba bean (Vicia faba) for organic farming. Universität Göttingen.
    
    
  • Susanne Dieckmann geb. Voges, 2007: Genetische Analyse von Heterosis im jüngsten Stadium einer Pflanze, als Embryo, am Beispiel der Fababohne (Vicia faba). Universität Göttingen.

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