ABSTRACT
Astro-INIA: First Green Shelled Coscorron Type Bean Variety Coscorron Type With a Determinate Bush Growth Habit

Juan Tay1*, Andrés France1 y Alberto Pedreros1
 

Astro-INIA is the first bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) variety of the coscorron type released in Chile, for green shelled bean production, with determinated bush growth habit (Type 1) released in Chile. Its origin was by selection from a plant selection with a determined of bush growth habit , Type 1, from a plantation of a seed producing crop of the Coscorron variety Granado-INIA, the latter with a vine growth habit. Besides its good architecture, Astro-INIA is notable for its earliness and good culinary quality, similarly to other coscorron varieties and landraces used in Chile for green shelled bean production.

Keywords: green shelled bean, determinate bush growth habit, Phaseolus vulgaris L.
1 Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Centro Regional de Investigación Quilamapu, Casilla 426, Chillán, Chile. E-mail: jtay@inia.cl *Autor para correspondencia.