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Book of Abstracts First Legume Society Conference 2013: A Legume Odyssey Novi Sad, Serbia, 9-11 May 2013
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Seed color effect on nutritional composition of dry bean and path analysis
Ali Kahraman, Mustafa Onder
University of Selcuk, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Field Crops, Konya, Turkey
This study was conducted to determine the relations between seed color (the L, a and b values)
and nutritional composition of dry bean genotypes. A total of 39 dry bean genotype seeds which
are widely grown in Turkey were used as material. Color tests were made with three replications
on 50 seeds of each genotype by color meter. According to the correlation analysis, the color of
the seed coat and cotyledon showed insignificant correlations with nutritional composition. For
the present study, it can be concluded that the color of common bean seeds does not give
sufficient information about mineral composition. Path analysis resulted that the copper (Cu) and
phosphorus (P) are the important nutrients in the statistically importance level of 5% with the
positive correlation values of 0.239 and 0.277 respectively. These elements are important to
increase the protein ratio in common bean genotypes.
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