ABSTRACT
There are two major types of common bean: snap and dry. Snap bean cultivars for green-pod harvest are also called garden, green, or stringless bean. Fully developed green pods of snap bean have reduced fiber in the pod walls and sutures. Both determinate bush and indeterminate climbing snap bean cultivars exist. The latter permit multiple harvests over a longer period of time and yield much higher per unit area of cropped land than their bush counterparts. The cultivation of climbing snap bean cultivars is more popular in China, home gardens in Europe, winter sowings in Florida, and around larger cosmopolitan cities in Latin America and elsewhere.
