If you’re a faba bean breeder interested in cold tolerance you will have come across a paper recently in GRACE the title of which will have set your pulse racing: Screening and selection of faba beans (Vicia faba L.) for cold tolerance and comparison to wild relatives. ((Inci, N., & Toker, C. (2011). Screening and selection of faba beans (Vicia faba L.) for cold tolerance and comparison to wild relatives Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 58 (8), 1169-1175 DOI: 10.1007/s10722-010-9649-2)) And if you had skimmed ahead to the conclusion you would have found it difficult to contain your excitement.
In conclusion, some faba bean accessions were selected for cold tolerance and desirable agronomic characteristics. ACV-42, ACV-84 and ACV-88 were selected as highly cold tolerant. These sources of cold tolerance could be used to improve cold tolerance level in faba bean breeding programs.
You would then have gone back and read the paper thoroughly to find more information on these previous accessions, and in particular on where to get hold of them. But you would have been disappointed, and you might very well have moved dejectedly onto the next paper in your Google alert.
Fortunately I am made of sterner stuff. So, thanks to an email to the authors, I can now tell you that
ACV-42 = TR 31590 at the Aegean Agricultural Research Institute, Izmir, Turkey
ACV-84 = IG 14048 at ICARDA
ACV-88 = IG 72247 also at ICARDA
And, thanks to Genesys, I can add that IG 14048 is a Polish landrace called Debek and IG 72247 is from Canada and has at some point had the number “73 Rm 70”, though I can find no reference to this in GRIN-Canada. Neither Eurisco nor Genesys has the Turkish genebank’s faba bean data, and their website was down when I tried it today, so I can’t tell you anything about TR 31590, I’m afraid.
You’re welcome.
And here’s a bit of a bonus for you. The paper also drops the fact that
The best known freezing tolerant genotype is a French genotype ‘Cote d’Or’ which can survive –22ºC if previously hardened…
Well, being a faba bean breeder interested in cold tolerance you probably already know that, and have it, but in case you’ve run out or something, Genesys/Eurisco says you can get it in a couple of different genebanks, including CGN in the Netherlands. ((Our friends at CGN are, incidentally, behind a recent paper looking at the completeness of the passport data in the Eurisco dataset. Their findings in a nutshell: not a bad effort, but could do better.))
Now, to feed back that evaluation information on ACV 42, 84 and 88 — and indeed all the other hundred-odd accessions evaluated in the paper — to the genebanks from whence they came, to make life that little bit easier for the next faba bean breeder interested in cold tolerance breeder…