Scientific Name	Phaseolus vulgaris
Common Name	French bean, kidney bean, string bean;
Taxonomy ID	3885
Lineage	cellular organisms > Viridiplantae > Streptophyta > Streptophytina > Embryophyta > Tracheophyta > Euphyllophyta > Spermatophyta > Magnoliophyta > Mesangiospermae > eudicotyledons > Gunneridae > Pentapetalae > rosids > fabids > Fabales > Fabaceae > Papilionoideae > Phaseoleae > Phaseolus
External Links	NCBI; JGI;
Representative Assembly	Pvulgaris_218_v1.0	GCF_000499845.1	DNA GFF RNA Protein

Description:

Phaseolus vulgaris, common bean or string bean,  is a herbaceous annual plant grown worldwide for its edible dry seed (known as just "beans") or unripe fruit (green beans) and an economically important species of beans. It is one of the most ancient crops of the world. Its botanical classification, along with other Phaseolus species, is as a member of the legume family Fabaceae, most of whose members acquire the nitrogen they require through an association with rhizobia, a species of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. The common bean is a highly variable species that has a long history of cultivation. All wild members of the species have a climbing habit, but many cultivars are classified as "bush beans" or "pole beans", depending on their style of growth. They are rich in protein and highly nutritive. Ripe seeds contain about 20-25% protein. Seeds also contain inhibitors of trypsin and chymotrypsin. These can be toxic if the bean is consumed raw but are destroyed by cooking. P. vulgaris has a relatively small genome of about 630 Mb with 11 haploid chromosomes. Genomic studies have been initiated in this plant because of its social and economic value. The Phaseomics project was started in 2001 by an international consortium of laboratories with an aim of developing high yielding bean varieties that have high protein quality and are stress and disease resistant. A WGS project has been initialized.