Overview of the Red Chile Breeding Program at NMSU

Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris & P. linensis)

• Family Fabaceae
  (Leguminoseae)


• Native to Central
  America


• Records of use as
  food date back to
  5000 B.C.


• Self-pollinated


• Warm season

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