Item DB/2/3/1 - Correspondence Gérard Duc (INRA), David Cook (Askam Bryan College of Agriculture)

Extent: 1 folder

Correspondence with Gérard Duc (INRA), 1995-2002: advising GD on articles, hybrids, zero tannin etc. including an article for DB to review/edit: 'Faba bean (Vicia faba L.')' (1995), annotated by DB. Correspondence with David Cook (Askam Bryan College of Agriculture) about merits amd breeding of determinate field beans (1991). 'Establishment and vigour of Winter Beans 1990/91' by Mervyn Pope: summary of 1990/91 trials and differential establishment/vigour in Winter bean and possible causes.

Admin History: G R A Croften (Tony), D A Bond and Gérard Duc collaborated on three papers: 'A review of the genetics of seed coat colour and hilum colour in field beans with comments on some implications for national listing and certification' (1998), 'Seed multiplication problems arising from the existence of two genes for the absence of tannin in the seeds of Vicia faba L.' (2000) and ' 'The Management of the Two Genes for Zero-Tannin in faba beans'. They made a translation of an associated paper by Dr Jean Picard: 'Apercu sur l'herédité du caractére absence de tannins dans les graines de féverole (Vicia faba L.)', J Picard (1976): 'An account of the inheritance of the absence of tannin character in the seeds of the field bean (Vicia faba L).'