Tepary bean

Tepary bean

Taxobox
name = Tepary bean
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Fabales
familia = Fabaceae
subfamilia = Faboideae
tribus = Phaseoleae
genus = "Phaseolus"
species = "P. acutifolius"
binomial = "Phaseolus acutifolius"
binomial_authority = A. Gray

The Tepary bean ("Phaseolus acutifolius", Fabaceae) is native to the southwestern United States and Mexico and has been grown there by the native peoples since pre-Columbian times. It is more drought-resistant than the common bean ("Phaseolus vulgaris") and is grown in desert and semi-desert conditions from Arizona through Mexico to Costa Rica. The water requirements are low and the crop will grow in areas where annual rainfall is less than 400 mm (16 inches). It has recently been introduced to African agriculture.

Other names for this bean include Pawi, Pavi, Tepari, Escomite, Yori mui and Yori muni. The name "tepary" may derive from the Tohono O'odham phrase "t'pawi" or "It's a bean".

Tepary beans are cooked like other dry beans after soaking. Some Native Americans would toast the dry beans, then grind them into a meal which was mixed with water before eating.

Recent studies from the United States and Mexico suggest that lectin toxins and other compounds from tepary beans may be useful as chemotherapy for treating cancer. However, further research is needed.

It is an ingredient in the Indian snacks 'bhujia' by Haldiram.

External links

* [http://www.slowfoodusa.org/ark/tepary_beans.html The Tepary Bean]
* [http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_MV025 Bean, Tepary -- Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray]
* [http://www.ocbtracker.com/ladypixel/papagosoup.html Papago Tepary Bean Soup]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PHAC NRCS: USDA Plants Profile] , [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PHACA2] , [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PHACL]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12453724&dopt=Abstract Purification and acute toxicity of a lectin extracted from tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius).]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12020595&dopt=Citation The effects of a protease inhibitor fraction from tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius) on in vitro cell proliferation and cell adhesion of transformed cells.]
* [http://ift.confex.com/ift/2004/techprogram/paper_22443.htm Cytotoxicity of tepary bean lectins (Phaseolus acutifolius lectins) on human malignant cells]


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