Factors of yield determination in faba bean (Vicia faba)

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najeeb H. Alharbi ◽  
Kedar N. Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Vicia Faba ◽  
Faba Bean ◽  
Plant Traits ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Total Production ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Biotic Stresses ◽  
Legume Crop ◽  
Significant Damage ◽  
Yield Determination

Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is an important cool-season legume crop that ranks fourth after chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), field pea (Pisum sativum L.) and lentil (Lens culinaris L.) in terms of total production. The global production of faba bean was 4.8 Mt in 2017, with China, Ethiopia and Australia being the largest producers (1.8, 0.93 and 0.37 Mt, respectively). However, its area of production is not increasing relative to other crops, mainly because of high yield instability. This can be attributed to several factors related to plant traits (e.g. phenology, morpho-physiology) and biotic and abiotic stresses. Faba bean has a very poor flower:pod ratio, with a maximum 20% of flowers resulting in pods. Environmental stresses such as frost, heat and drought cause significant damage to flowers and young pods; therefore, matching phenology of crops to the environment is important for avoiding or minimising detrimental effects of unfavourable environmental conditions. In order to improve adaptation and yield, we need to understand the main factors affecting plant growth, including biotic stresses, identify the main yield components, and find traits associated with tolerance to frost, heat and drought.

scholarly journals Genotype X Environment Interaction Analysis of Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) for Biomass and Seed Yield across Different Environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2586
Author(s):  
Panayiota Papastylianou ◽  
Dimitrios N. Vlachostergios ◽  
Christos Dordas ◽  
Evangelia Tigka ◽  
Paschalis Papakaloudis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vicia Faba ◽  
Seed Yield ◽  
Faba Bean ◽  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Grain Legumes ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Crop Species ◽  
South Central ◽  
Vicia Faba L

Development of high yielding and stable cultivars of various legume crops across different environments is very important for their adoption by farmers. In addition, climate change sets new challenges to major crop species and especially to grain legumes such as faba bean (Vicia faba L.) for adaptation to stressful environments. The present study focused on evaluating faba bean genotypes developed for yield and stability across different environments. The study was conducted in three areas of Greece (South, Central, and North) for two consecutive growing seasons (2018–2019 and 2019–2020). Biomass yield, seed yield, and yield components were studied together with plant height, earliness, and water use efficiency. Genotype, environment, and their interaction affected most of the studied characteristics. The environment was the major source of variation for most of the characteristics, as it explained 81–93% of total variation, and only in the thousand seed weight the variation was 49% for the environment and 40% for the genotype. Genotype had a much smaller effect on the remaining characteristics (1.2–3.9%), and the interaction between environment x genotype accounted for up to 0.5–17% of the variation. GGE-biplot analysis for high yield and stability across different environments revealed three genotypic types: genotypes well adapted either for biomass or seed yield and genotypes with high adaptation capacity for both traits under typical Mediterranean conditions. These results indicated that screening faba bean genotypes under different environmental field conditions is essential to identify adaptable cultivars to be cultivated for biomass and/or seed yield or to be used in breeding programs.

Yield determination and the critical period of faba bean (Vicia faba L.)

2019 ◽  
Vol 241 ◽  
pp. 107575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lachlan Lake ◽  
Diego E. Godoy-Kutchartt ◽  
Daniel F. Calderini ◽  
Andrew Verrell ◽  
Victor O. Sadras
Keyword(s):  
Vicia Faba ◽  
Faba Bean ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Yield Determination ◽  
Vicia Faba L

scholarly journals Effects of NPS and Bio-organic Fertilizers on Yield and Yield Components of Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in Gozamin District, East Gojjam, Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Addisu Ebbisa ◽  
Tadele Amdemariam
Keyword(s):  
Vicia Faba ◽  
Faba Bean ◽  
Yield Components ◽  
Block Design ◽  
Organic Fertilizer ◽  
Organic Fertilizers ◽  
Grain Legume ◽  
Total Production ◽  
Yield And Yield Components ◽  
Four Levels

Faba bean (Vicia faba L) is the first grain legume in terms of hectarage, total production and foreign exchange earnings in Ethiopia. The current study was designed to evaluate effect of NPS and bio-organic fertilizers on the yield and yield components of faba bean in Debre Markos University research farm. A total of 16 treatments were made from the factorial combination of four levels NPS (0, 50, 100 and 150 kg ha-1) and four levels bio-organic fertilizer (Nil BOF (Bio(Nil)), rhizobium (Bio(IR)), 10 t ha-1 FYM (Bio(FYM)) and FYM+Rhizobium (Bio(FYM+IR))) in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. The Walki (EH 96049-2) variety, which is high yielding, moderate disease resistant and water-logging tolerant used as test crop. The result experiment showed that, plot treated with Bio(FYM+IR)+NPS100 treatment gave statically maximum effective number of tillers (2.73), maximum number of pods per plant (20.30), hundred seeds weight (76.11g), grain yield (5.62 t ha-1), biomass yield (10.94 t ha-1) and Harvest index (59.91%) than over other treatments received NPS fertilizer with and without bio-organic fertilizers. Therefore, the combined use of 100kg ha-1 NPS with 10 tha-1 FYM and rhizobium inoculation is superior for optimum production of faba bean in study area.

scholarly journals Genetic Variability of Tunisian Faba Beans (Vicia faba L.) Based on Seeds’ Morphophysical Properties as Assessed by Statistical Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Khalil Khamassi ◽  
Elyes Babay ◽  
Mustapha Rouissi ◽  
Abir Dakhlaoui ◽  
Rayda Ben Ayed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vicia Faba ◽  
Faba Bean ◽  
Correlation Study ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Seed Shape ◽  
Physiological Characterization ◽  
Legume Crop ◽  
Mean Width ◽  
Vicia Faba L

Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is a legume crop cultivated for its nutritious seeds that are an important worldwide source of human food and feed. Seeds characterization is a prerequisite step for faba bean quality improvement. The morphophysical characterization of the seeds of twenty-four local faba bean accessions following the UPOV descriptors and the AOAC International standards was carried out and assessed with an approach based on Euclidean statistical model. “205 Bulk” was the unique accession harboring white hilum color seed which is linked to low convicine grain content. Irregular seed shape was the most observed character among the studied accessions except “Badii” displaying an elliptical seed shape; therefore, seed shape did not allow discrimination within our Tunisian germplasm. Interestingly, the physical characters of the seeds showed significant diversity between the accessions for all the measured parameters. A highly significant variability was observed for axial, length, and width dimensions of seeds, with “Memdouh” being the longest and largest seed accession, whereas “01-02” was the shortest and narrowest. Classification of the studied faba bean germplasm accessions based on morphophysical characters using clustering by Euclidean distance revealed three different groups. Moreover, multivariate PCA analysis further classified the faba bean accessions into four main clusters. Correlation study performed by using Spearman’s test established positive correlations within physical parameters of seeds such as between mean length and mean width of seeds. Therefore, using morphophysical parameters screening, valuable phenotypes have been selected for deeper physiological characterization and further breeding programs.

Acquisition of desiccation tolerance in faba bean (Vicia Faba) as affected by maturity stages, harvested organ type, and drying method

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Majeed Baloch ◽  
Tongtong Zhai ◽  
Abdul Wahid Baloch ◽  
Zhihua Liu ◽  
Xingtang Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vicia Faba ◽  
Faba Bean ◽  
Desiccation Tolerance ◽  
Drying Method ◽  
Maturity Stages ◽  
Organ Type

Assessment of soil fertility augmenting potential of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) germplasm and their performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anil Kumar Singh ◽  
Rashmi Yadav ◽  
M.K. Meena ◽  
Y.J. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Soil Fertility ◽  
Vicia Faba ◽  
Faba Bean ◽  
Climate Scenario ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Vicia Faba L ◽  
Unique Ability

Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) maintain third place with respect to area and production among legume. Its unique ability to excel under all most all type of climatic conditions, it is one of the best performing crops under changing climate scenario. Its soil fertility augmenting potential and their performance was evaluated for two years with 73 accessions collected from Bihar. This study provides glimpses of scope and magnitude of soil fertility improving potential of faba bean (Vicia faba L.)

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