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AVRDC GERMPLASM: ITS UTILIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED MUNGBEAN
Abstract
Attempts to improve mungbean have been mainly confined either to examination of varietal differences or selections from the cultivator's improved stocks. Cognizant of this situation, the Asian Regional Center of the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (ARC-AVRD) Thailand and Nuclear Institute for Agriculture & Biology (NIAB), Pakistan, initiated a mungbean shuttle breeding programme to strengthening the rescarch activities for the development of new high-yielding and disease-resistant genotypes suitable for both South and Southeast Asian countries. As a result of combined efforts, several mungbean promising lines have been developed. With this collaboration, three vanelies namely NIA Mung 51, 54, and 92 have been released as commercial varieties for general cultivation to the farmers in Pakisian. In this paper, brief history of development of improved mungean genotypes at NIAB. Faisalabad and inter-relationships among various component traits of sced yield observed in an experiment conducted at ARC-AVRDC. Thailand are described
