Called “bean” in GBIF
Phaseolus is a genus of herbaceous to woody annual and perennial vines in the family Fabaceae containing about 70 plant species, all native to the Americas, primarily Mesoamerica.
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A photo of a spotted bean leaf in your garden could soon get a quick disease diagnosis from a pho...
The pole beans and peas in your garden keep setting flowers for weeks, and that long bloom window...
If you've ever grown green beans in a backyard plot and watched leaves develop rust-colored spots...
If you've ever grown beans in rough, nutrient-poor, or contaminated soil and watched them struggl...
The seeds and grains in your vegetable patch already carry built-in pest defenses, and understand...
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Researchers tracked down the exact rocky mountain spot in West Texas where a 19th-century botanist first collected the wild ancestor of the tepary bean, a drought-tough crop grown by desert farmers for centuries, and gathered fresh seed there in 2025 to preserve it before it's lost.
If you've ever grown beans in rough, nutrient-poor, or contaminated soil and watched them struggle, this research points to...
The seeds and grains in your vegetable patch already carry built-in pest defenses, and understanding them could mean fewer...
A photo of a spotted bean leaf in your garden could soon get a quick disease diagnosis from a phone app, without a lab visit...
The pole beans and peas in your garden keep setting flowers for weeks, and that long bloom window is the same trait breeders...
The pea and bean plants in your vegetable bed grow those pinkish root nodules by running an internal shipping network, and...
The dry beans, peas, and soybeans you grow or cook with flower on a schedule tuned by genes unique to legumes, which is...
The cowpea, common bean, or fava bean you grow in your garden could soon come in climate-tough varieties years sooner, since...
If you've ever grown green beans in a backyard plot and watched leaves develop rust-colored spots or water-soaked lesions,...
The bean plants and peas in your vegetable bed rely on a hidden bargain with soil bacteria that trades sugar for fertilizer,...
If you grow beans in a garden that dries out mid-summer, the right root bacteria could keep your plants producing even when...
If you grow legumes like beans or peas, the right soil bacteria can fix atmospheric nitrogen directly onto your plants' roots,...
Chickpeas, lentils, and dry beans fail at alarming rates when fungal or bacterial disease sweeps through a field, and the...
Common beans — the same ones you're growing in your vegetable patch — carry enzymes in their proteins that scientists are now...
Lima beans you grow from heirloom seed are drawing on genetic diversity shaped by two entirely separate domestication events...
Every dry bean in your pantry — black, pinto, kidney — exists because plant breeders have been racing against fungal and...
White mold quietly devastates backyard bean patches and sunflower beds every wet summer, and conventional fungicides often...
White mold quietly kills lettuce, beans, sunflowers, and dozens of other garden vegetables every wet summer, and knowing how...
Soybeans and their bean-family cousins quietly fertilize themselves by hosting root bacteria — and this discovery reveals the...
Every bean, pea, or clover you grow depends on underground bacteria that fertilize the soil for free—and this research...
Tepary beans grown as cover crops could help your garden soil store nitrogen naturally, reducing the need for synthetic...
Geminiviruses, spread by whiteflies, routinely wipe out tomato, pepper, and bean harvests — and CRISPR-based crop resistance...
The beans, lentils, and peas you grow or eat could become far more resilient to drought and poor soils by deliberately...
Compacted soil — caused by heavy farm equipment, foot traffic, or even heavy rain — is quietly reducing the yields of the...
If drought conditions can program a plant's offspring to host different soil microbes, gardeners and farmers may one day use...