Chapter 7. Stephen L. Clement, Massimo Cristofaro, Susan E. Cowgill, Susanne Weigand. 1999. Germplasm resources, insect resistance, and grain legume improvement. Pages 131-148. In: Stephen L. Clement, Sharron S. Quisenberry (editors). 1999. Global Plant Genetic Resources for Insect-Resistant Crops. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida 33431, USA, 295 pages.

Keywords: grain legumes: chickpea Cicer arietinum, dry pea Pisum sativum, letil Lens culinaris, faba bean Vicia faba, common bean Phaseolus vulgaris, world production and uses, insect constraints to production, germplasm resources, genetic resources of cool season food legumes, plant adaptation and breeding, plant resistance to manage insect pests, specialist insects, pea specialists Bruchus pisorum, B. dentipes, B. rufimanus, wild peas have strong antibiosis, wild relatives of lentil Lens culinaris ssp. orientalis, and ssp. odemensis, and L. nigricans spp. nigricans, and spp. ervoides, generalist insects, Heliothis armigera, Aphis craccivora, genetically engineered plants, stored product pests: Callosobruchus chinensis, C. maculatus.