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In the last decade a new type of field bean, a ‘cereal mimic’ with a determinate growth habit, has been introduced into the breeding pool. It is derived from an x-ray mutant from the Swedish line Primus with a terminal inflorescence, ti, which breeds true as a homozygous recessive (Sjodin, 1971). This has been crossed with a precocious flowering genotype. The resulting plant is described as neotonous because it flowers while it still has only juvenile leaves (Chapman and Peat, 1978). The combination approximates to a proposed ideotype recalling the cereal growth habit.
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Bailey, M.P. (1984). A Note on Two Contrasted Growth Forms of Faba Bean. In: Chapman, G.P., Tarawali, S.A. (eds) Systems for Cytogenetic Analysis in Vicia Faba L.. Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6210-1_17
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