Documents developed by the Working Group
- Minimum descriptor list for Arachis (22,0 KB)(2002)
Publications of interest
Crop conservation strategies
- Debouck DG. 2014. Conservation of Phaseolus beans genetic resources. A strategy. CIAT / Global Crop Diversity Trust
- Anonymous. 2009. Global Strategy for the Ex Situ Conservation of Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.)
- Anonymous. 2008. Global Strategy for the Ex Situ Conservation of Chickpea (Cicer L.)
- Anonymous. 2008. Global Strategy for the Ex Situ Conservation of Lentil (Lens Miller)
- Anonymous. 2007. Strategy for the Ex Situ Conservation of Lathyrus (grass pea), with special reference to Lathyrus sativus, L. cicera, L. ochrus
Monographs
- De Ron AM (editor). 2015. Grain Legumes. Handbook on Plant Breeding no.10. Springer-Verlag New York.
Posters
- Gailīte A, Būmane S, Gaile A, Ruņģis D. 2013. Evaluation, characterisation and utilisation of Latvian pea (Pisum sativum L. ) genetic resources. Poster presented at the EUCARPIA Genetic Resources section meeting, 11-13 June 2013, Alnarp, Sweden.
- Narits L, Annamaa K. 2013. Characterization of Estonian Field pea genetic resources. Poster presented at the EUCARPIA Genetic Resources section meeting, 11-13 June 2013, Alnarp, Sweden.
Articles
- Petrova, S., Velinov, V. and Simova-Stoilova, L. (2026) 'Seed biochemical composition and stress resistance at germination stage in promising pea (Pisum sativum) and broad bean (Vicia faba) accessions', Plant Science, 4, in press.
- Boldischar, C., Bubolz, J., Reckling, M., Lohwasser, U., Udupa, S.M., Zikeli, S. and Zörb, C. (2025) 'Genetic and environmental variation in health-promoting L-homoarginine and neurotoxic β-N-oxalyl-L-α,β-diaminopropionic acid in grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.)', Legume Science, 7, p. e70068. https://doi.org/10.1002/leg3.70068
- Petrova, S. (2025) 'Agro-morphological assessment of Pisum sativum L. accessions of Bulgarian origin', Journal of Mountain Agriculture on the Balkans, 28(1), pp. 140–159.
- Petrova, S. (2025) 'Evaluation of phenotypic diversity of local accessions of Vicia faba L.', Journal of Mountain Agriculture on the Balkans, 28(3), pp. 72–86.
- García-Fernández C, Jurado M, Campa A, Brezeanu C, Geffroy V, Bitocchi E, Papa R, Ferreira JJ. A Core Set of Snap Bean Genotypes Established by Phenotyping a Large Panel Collected in Europe. Plants. 2022; 11(5):577. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11050577
- Rocchetti L, Gioia T, Logozzo G, Brezeanu C, Pereira LG, Rosa LD, Marzario S, Pieri A, Fernie AR, Alseekh S, et al. Towards the Development, Maintenance and Standardized Phenotypic Characterization of Single‐Seed‐Descent Genetic Resources for Chickpea. Current Protocols. 2022;2(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpz1.371.
- Bellucci E, Mario Aguilar O, Alseekh S, Bett K, Brezeanu C, Cook D, De la Rosa L, Delledonne M, Dostatny DF, Ferreira JJ, et al. The INCREASE project: Intelligent Collections of food‐legume genetic resources for European agrofood systems. The Plant Journal. 2021;108(3):646–660. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15472.
- Sinkovič L, Pipan B, Sinkovič E, Meglič V. 2019. Morphological seed characterization of common (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and runner (Phaseolus coccineus L.) bean germplasm: a Slovenian Gene Bank example. BioMed Research International, vol. 2019, Article ID 6376948, 13 pages, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/6376948.
- Jing R, Ambrose MA, Knox MR, Smykal P, Hybl M, Ramos Á, Caminero C, Burstin J, Duc G, van Soest LJM, Święcicki WK, Pereira MG, Vishnyakova M, Davenport GF, Flavell AJ, Ellis THN. 2012. Genetic Diversity in European Pisum Germplasm Collections. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 125(2):367–380. DOI 10.1007/s00122-012-1839-1.
- Suso MJ, Vishnyakova M, Ramos Á, Duc G, Ambrose M. 2011. An International Survey on State of the Art of Grain Legume Management in Gene Banks. (59,2 KB)Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology B 1 (2011) 975-981.
- [ECPGR]. 2010. Regeneration and safety-duplication of threatened cereal and grain legume accessions (57,4 KB). Bioversity Newsletter for Europe 40:7
Book chapters
- De Ron AM, Rodiño AP, Gioia T, Brezeanu C, Burzo I, Janse van Rensburg B, Pastor Corrales MA, Nay MM, Fourie D, Nkhata W, Shimelis H, Solberg SØ, Logozzo G, Marzario S, Gonçalves-Vidigal MC, Vaz-Bisneta M, Valentini G, Galván MZ, Abán C, Brezeanu PM. (2022). Common Bean Genetics, Breeding, and Genomics for Adaptation to Biotic Stress Conditions. In: Kole C (eds) Genomic Designing for Biotic Stress Resistant Pulse Crops. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91043-3_1
Descriptors
- Key descriptors for peas (FAO 2025)
- Key access and utilization descriptors for bean genetic resources (Bioversity International and CIAT 2009)
- Key access and utilization descriptors for chickpea genetic resources (Bioversity International, ICARDA, ICRISAT and IARI 2010)
- Key access and utilization descriptors for cowpea genetic resources (Bioversity International, NBPGR and IITA 2010)
- Key access and utilization descriptors for faba bean genetic resources (Bioversity International, NBPGR and IITA 2010)
- Key access and utilization descriptors for Lathyrus spp. genetic resources (Bioversity International and ICARDA 2009)
- Key access and utilization descriptors for lentil genetic resources (Bioversity International, ICARDA and NBPGR 2010)
- Key access and utilization descriptors for pigeon pea genetic resources (Bioversity International, ICRISAT and ICAR 2010)
- Descriptors for chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) (IBPGR 1993)
- Descriptors for cowpea (IBPGR 1993)
- Faba bean descriptors (IBPGR 1985)
- Descriptors for groundnut/Descriptors para mani/Descripteurs pour l'arachide (IBPGR and ICRISAT 1992)
- Descriptors for Lathyrus spp. (IPGRI 2000)
- Lentil descriptors (IBPGR and ICARDA 1985)
- Lima bean descriptors (IBPGR 1982)
- Lupin descriptors/Descriptores de lupinos (IBPGR 1981)
- Phaseolus acutifolius descriptors (IBPGR 1985)
- Phaseolus coccineus descriptors (IBPGR 1983)
- Phaseolus vulgaris descriptors (IBPGR 1982)
- Descriptors for soyabean (IBPGR 1984)
Other
- Sabetta, W., Finetti Sialer, M.M., Fiorentino, L., Rapanà, N. and Piergiovanni, A.R. (2025) 'Drought stress resilience of Apulian chickpea local varieties', in Bianco, M., Mastronardi, E., Ventura, G., Calvano, C.D. and Monopoli, A. (eds) Proceedings of Chimica sotto l'albero 2025, V edizione, Sezione SCI Puglia. Bari, 18–19 December 2025. ISBN 978-88-94952-59-9.
- Sabetta, W., Fiorentino, L., Rapanà, N., Piergiovanni, A.R. and Finetti Sialer, M.M. (2025) 'Valorizing Apulian chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) biodiversity: a multidisciplinary approach', in Buzzini, P., Turchetti, B., Sannino, C. and Mugnai, G. (eds) 15th National Conference on Biodiversity, 2nd International Conference on Mediterranean Biodiversity: Book of Abstracts. Perugia, Italy, 3–6 June 2025. ISBN 978-88-99407-03-2.
- Finetti Sialer, M.M., Rapanà, N., Sabetta, W. and Piergiovanni, A.R. (2024) 'Characterization of Kunitz Trypsin inhibitors in some Apulian accessions of Cicer arietinum L.: enhancing the value of local legumes', The 11th International Conference on Legume Genetics and Genomics (ICLGG), Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia, 30 September – 3 October 2024.