Pea research by the food legumes group in the Northwest of Spain

Abstract

2 páginas y 1 tabla.- Trabajo presentado en el Simposio inernacional organizado por la Misión Biológica de Galicia y la Asociación Europea para el Mejoramiento de las Plantas (EUCARPIA) en Pontevedra, entre el 1 y el 4 de abril de 1998.Over the last thirty years, the increasing use of commercial grain legumes as much as the modern agricultural technologies had caused the dissapearance of many local cultivated varieties, less productive than the commercial ones. At the Mision Biologica the Galicia of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (MBG-CSIC) the grain legume group works mainly with two crops: bean and pea. With regard to pea (Pisum sativum), which is an important and traditional crop in the Northwest of Spain, landraces are still maintained by a few farmers using traditional methods, the production being mainly for personnel consumption. These landraces, that are mixtures of pure lines, could be a reserve of resistance genes against pests and diseases, so they are useful to select lines well suited to environmental conditions in the geographic area.Peer reviewe