Faba beans (Vicia faba) – a traditional leguminous crop in Bulgaria

The main task of the current study was collecting faba bean local landraces, because they are still grown and maintained in the home gardens and small farms almost in the whole country. They were visited and an inventory of over 20 regions have been performed and seeds from about 100 accessions of local populations, old varieties and forms have been collected. The collected accessions were classified by duration of the growing season, plant habit and height, mass and colour of the seeds and content of crude protein