Climatic adaptation and ecological descriptors of wild beans from Mexico.

Despite its economic, social, biological, and cultural importance, wild forms of the genus are not well represented in germplasm banks, and they are at great risk due to changes in land use as well as climate change. To improve our understanding of the potential geographical distribution of wild beans ( spp.) from Mexico and support in situ and ex situ conservation programs, we determined the climatic adaptation ranges of 29 species and two subspecies of collected throughout Mexico.