"Mirang", a new cultivar for vegetable soybean, was developed fi-om the cross between "Keunol" and "Geunjeongol"a black seed coat with black hilum and yellow cotyledon. Over 3 year of Korea Regional Adaptation Tests (2003-2005) for veg-etable soybean, Mir

A new light green seed coat Azuki bean cultivar, "Yeonkeum" was developed at the National Institute of Crop Science(NICS) and the Yeongnam Agricultural Research Institute (YARI) in 2005. Yeonkeum was selected from the cross between Jaja-sodun and "IT12099

"Danmi 2", a new cultivar for vegetable soybean, was developed from the cross between "Seokryangput" and"YS1307" (Seokryangput/Mi1yang77) at Yeongnam Agricultural Research Institute and released in 2005. The pedigree of'Danmi2", designated as Milyang 145

A new black seed coated soybean cultivar, "Ilpumgeumjeong 2" was developed at the Yeongnam Agricultural ResearchInstitute (YARI) m 2005. Ilpumgeumjeong 2 was selected &om the cross between "Milyang 68" and "Suwon 178". The prelim-inary, advanced and regio

Molecular markers have become fundamental tools for crop genome study. The objective of this study was to construct a genetic linkage map for cowpea with PCR-based molecular markers. Five hundred and twenty random RAPD primers were screened for parental polymorphism. Ninety RAPD markers from sixty primers was segregated in 75 F2 mapping population derived from the cross of local cultivars GSC01 and GSC02. 70 RAPD markers were found to be genetically linked and formed 11 linkage groups. Linkage map spanned 474.1 cM across all 11 linkage groups. There are six linkage groups of 40 cM or more, and five smaller linkage groups range from 4.9 to 24.8 cM. The average linkage distance between pairs of markers among all linkage groups was 6.87 cM. The number of markers per linkage group ranged from 2 to 32. The longest group 1 spans 190.6 cM, while the length of shortest group 11 is 4.9 cM. This map is further needed to be saturated with the various markers such as RFLP, AFLP, SSR and more various populations and primers. In addition, morphological markers and biochemical markers should be united to construct a comprehensive linkage map