A total of 29 common bean accessions were used in this study (Table 1), including 27 Slovene
accessions from the gene bank at the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia and two check
accessions (‘Michigan Dark Red Kidney’ (MDRK) from Andean gene pool and ‘Michelite’ from
Mesoamerican gene pool) from the Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research,
Gatersleben, Germany. The genetic diversity and the origin of these accessions were
assessed in previous study using AFLP (Šuštar-Vozlič et al., 2006) and a part of them (14) was
also genotyped in another study using 14 microsatellite markers (Maras et al., 2006). Fifteen
accessions were genotyped in addition in this study, using the same microsatellite markers as
above.