Phaseolus vulgaris: adapting the missing link for sustainable production and consumption in the UK

饮食选择可以反映食物系统如何影响我们个人以及作为一个社会和我们的环境的健康，并最终导致气候变化。从本质上讲，可持续的粮食生产取决于可持续的饮食。豆类作物可以在可持续食品系统中发挥重要作用，因为它们(1)是极好的植物蛋白质来源，具有许多额外的健康益处；(2)具有众所周知的生物固氮的环境回报--减少对合成肥料的需求，从而间接减少温室气体排放；(3)是极好的轮作作物，可以打破病虫害的循环。这个项目将把跨学科的方法应用到华威作物中心目前的菜豆分子育种计划中。具体目标将旨在为精英育种材料确定分子标记，为种植者捕捉抗病和可收获性状，以及为消费者提供烹饪性状。消费者参与性研究将被用来检验对食物(脉冲)选择的解释。心理学研究方法将通过提供适当食物选择和食物准备信息的规范来检查是否可以增加脉搏摄入量。最终，该项目旨在加强对用户和社会需求的理解，以提供全方位的英国脉冲育种影响。具体地说，Impact旨在通过为英国消费者提供健康的本土植物蛋白来源，为英国农民提供有利可图的短季豆类间歇作物，使普通豆类适应英国的食品体系。换句话说，在英国，本土种植的扁豆是一种缺失的作物和成分，将可持续的食品生产和可持续的食品消费联系在一起。

Dietary choices can reflect how the food system affects our health personally and as a society, our environment and ultimately contributes to climate change. Essentially, sustainable food production is contingent on sustainable diets. Pulse crops can play an important role in sustainable food systems as they (1) are an excellent source of plant protein with numerous additional health benefits; (2) have the well-known environmental return of biological nitrogen fixation - reducing the need for synthetic fertilisers and as such indirectly reduce GHG emissions; and (3) are excellent crops to include in crop rotations to break cycles of pest and diseases.This project will apply a transdisciplinary approach to the current common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) molecular breeding programme at Warwick Crop Centre. Specific objectives will aim to identify molecular markers for elite breeding material that capture disease resistance and harvestability traits for growers, as well as culinary traits for consumers. Consumer participatory research will be used to examine explanations for food (pulse) selection. Psychology research methods will enable examination of whether pulse intake can be increased by providing a norm of appropriate food selection and information on food preparation. Ultimately, this project aims to enhance the understanding of users' and society's needs for delivering a full range of UK pulse breeding impacts. Specifically, impact is aimed at adapting common bean to the UK food system by providing UK consumers with a healthy source of home-grown plant protein and UK farmers with a profitable short-season legume break crop. In other words, home-grown haricot beans are a missing crop and ingredient that links sustainable food production and sustainable food consumption in the UK.