Building-up faba bean cultivars for low-input farming. A crop-pollinator inter-play approach

Abstract

Trabajo presentado en el International Congress "Diversity strategies for organic and low input agricultures and their food systems", celebrado en Nantes del 7 al 8 de julio de 2014.Decline in bee populations has increased the interest in the ecological services of faba bean because a group of bee species is associated with their flowers. Faba bean has a great potential to be served by bee polllnators, as agents of crossing, lo increase heterozygosity and heterogenelty for heterosis-mediated yield and resilience in open-pollinaled varieties (OPVs). lnformation on how the inter-play crop-pollinator contributes to crop perfomance is explored lo develop ecosystems services and improved OPVs for low-input (Ll). We test whether phenotypic selection exerted by pollinalors is associated to dlfferences among plants in dynamic adaptation and in crop seed production pattems.N