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Protein content of spring and winter varieties of field beans (Vicia faba L.) sown and harvested on the same dates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

D. A. Bond
Affiliation:
Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge
Gillian Toynbee-clarke
Affiliation:
Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge

Summary

When both spring and winter varieties of field beans were entered in the same trial, sown on the same date (in the spring) and harvested on the same date, the seeds of spring varieties had mean crude protein contents which were higher than those of winter varieties by 3·1 ± 0·9% in the first trial, 2·8 ± 0·7% in the second trial, and 2·9 ± 0·3% in the third trial.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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