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A modified mass selection scheme for creating winter-hardy faba bean (Vicia faba L.) lines with a broad genetic base

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Winter-hardy faba bean (Vicia faba L.) from northern Europe is represented by a rather narrow gene pool. Limited selection gains for overwintering below −25 °C have restricted the adoption of this crop. Therefore, the faba bean collection maintained by the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) was utilized to broaden this genetic base by identifying potentially new sources of winter-hardiness using a modified mass selection scheme. From an initial source population, bulk-harvested micro-plots of 466 NPGS accessions, four different bulks were formed by harvesting seeds from plants that survived at four locations representing a range of overwintering selection environments across southeastern Washington. These four bulk populations were then mass selected for three cycles based on winter survival along with a selected group of advanced northern European populations or breeding lines at two southeastern Washington locations with divergent climates. This procedure generated breeding materials with winter-hardiness comparable to the northern European populations. We observed that Northern European populations showed slower annual gains in percent survival (<5%) than NPGS bulks (>5%). Further, the frequency of large seeded populations (>80 g × 100 seed−1) was reduced over time, suggesting an association between seed size and overwintering. The breeding materials generated by mass selection are useful for the future improvement of faba bean as a fall-sown pulse or cover crop.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by USDA-ARS CRIS Project 5348-21000-026-00D and NIFA MultiState Project W006 to Jinguo Hu and Clarice Coyne and Scholarship from the ARCS® Foundation to Erik Landry. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance with planting and plot maintenance by Jarrod Pfaff, Sean Vail, Kurt Tetrick and Wayne Olson. We would also like to thank Lisa Taylor for technical assistance.

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Landry, E.J., Coyne, C.J., McGee, R.J. et al. A modified mass selection scheme for creating winter-hardy faba bean (Vicia faba L.) lines with a broad genetic base. Euphytica 213, 72 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-017-1843-2

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