Vicia faba: Agronomy, Physiology and Breeding

Physiology and Agronomy.- Components of the Yield and Yield of Vicia Faba.- Proposal of a Growth Stages Key for Vicia Faba.- Vascular Development in the Reproductive Tissues of Vicia Faba L..- Growth Habit in Relation to Assimilate Partitioning and Some Consequences for Field Bean Breeding.- Nitrate Reduction in Vicia Faba Grown at Different Temperatures.- Effect of Plant Growth Regulator Combinations on Faba Bean Development and Yield Components.- Effects of Water Stress on Some Growth Parameters and Yields of Field Bean Crops.- Vegetative and Reproductive Growth of Faba Beans (Vicia Faba L.) as Influenced by Water Supply.- The Effect of Irrigation and Bees on the Yield and Yield Components of Vicia Faba L..- Behaviour of Field Bean Lines with a Water Table Maintained at Different Levels.- Evaluation of Seed Metering Devices for Sowing Grain Legumes.- The Effects of Poor Soil Physical Conditions on the Growth and Yield of Vicia Faba.- Effect of Seed Source on Performance of Faba Bean Varieties.- Recent Developments in Forecasting Aphis Fabae Damage and Control, and Its Implications for Other Pests of Vicia Faba.- The Potential of Whole-Crop Vicia Faba for Ensilage.- Some Results Obtained in Belgium on Growth, Yield and Quality of Vicia Faba Harvested in Grain or for Whole Crop Silage.- Influence of Density on the Growth and Development of Winter Field Bean (Vicia Faba).- Results of the Joint Faba Bean and PEA Trials of the Years 19801982.- Yield Stability of Faba Beans and Peas in EEC Joint Trials 198082.- Faba Beans in China : Some Facts and Personal Observations, Particularly Concerning Virus Diseases.- Breeding and Cytogenetics.- Selection Methods for Yield Improvement in Faba Beans.- Barriers to Interspecific Hybridisation between Vicia Faba and other Speciesof Section Faba.- Breeding for Self-Fertility.- A Design for Testing Some Genotype x Environment Interactions.- Microdensitometric Analysis of Vicia Faba L. Chromosome Images.- Variability Induced by a Dicentric Chromosome in Vicia faba L..- Faba Bean Cytogenetics at Cordoba, Spain.- The Incidence of Ovule Fertilization in Faba Bean Flowers from Commercial Crops and from Experimental Plots of Contrasting Genotypes.- New Developments in Cytoplasmic Male Sterility in Vicia faba L..- Instability of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility in Vicia Faba: Role of Temperature at Meiosis.- Nutrition and Quality.- An Assessment of the Potential for Improving the Nutritive Value of Field Beans (Vicia Faba) A Progress Report.- Quantitative Measurement of Quality Determining Constituents in Seeds of Different Inbred Lines from a World Collection of Vicia Faba.- Antinutritional and Favism Inducing Factors in Vicia Faba L.: Nutritional Value of Faba Beans; Metabolism and Properties of Vicine, Convicine and Dopa-Glucoside.- Conclusions.- Faba Bean Research in Europe.- Cytogenetics.- General Discussion and Recommendations.- General Discussion and Recommendations.- Dr. IR. G. Dantuma 1924 1983.- Dr. IR. G. Dantuma 1924 1983.