A new kidney bean cultivar, “Noghyeob 1” was developed at the Yeongnam Agricultural Research Institute (YARI) in 2005. “Noghyeob 1” was selected from a cross between KLG50074 and KLG50063. It has determinate growth habit, white flower, green pod color, oval shape of crossed section of pod at the harvesting time for edible pod, white seed coat and middle seed size (21.1 grams per 100 seeds). The average yield of edible pod of “Noghyeob 1” was 24.25 M/T per hectare in the yield trials which were carried out at the green house in spring and autumn in 2005. It was 7 percent higher than that of the check cultivar “Kangnangkong 1”.

• Doo Chull Shin
• Sung Taek Kang
• Won Young Han
• In Youl Baek
• Myoung Gun Choung
• Keum Yong Park
• Seong Hyu Shin
• Young Hyun Hwang
• Jong Min Ko
• Duck Yong Suh
• Ho Yeong Kim