Scientists have developed a haricot seed they hope will thrive in the UK after a 12-year project.
The haricot beans used by the major British baked bean brands are currently imported from the US, Canada, Ethiopia and ChinaFarmers and scientists say they are optimistic that a commercial crop of beans sown in Lincolnshire will mark the start of home-grown beans-on-toast.
But scientists have developed a seed they hope will allow the plants to thrive after a 12-year project.Thousands of tonnes of dried haricot beans are imported to the UK each week by the major brands, with legumes coming from the US, Canada, Ethiopia and China. "At the moment we don't have any beans that are grown here that are suitable for baked beans, our climate isn't right for producing this type of bean."The seeds sown in Lincolnshire mark the latest phase of the research by the University of Warwick
Prof Eric Holub, from the university's Life Sciences department, said: "The work that I have been involved with started in 2011, but actually it was inherited material that had been used here on the university farm in the 1970s and 80s.
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