Common Bean: Economic Importance and Relevance to Biological Science Research -- Botany of the Phaseolus bean crops -- Domestication and Crop History -- Cytogenetics and Comparative Analysis of Phaseolus species -- Genetic mapping and QTL analysis in common bean -- Requirement of Whole-Genome Sequencing -- Common Bean Genomes: Mining New Knowledge of a Major Societal Crop -- Organelle Genomes in Phaseolus Beans and their Use in Evolutionary Studies -- Phytic acid Biosynthesis and Transport in Phaseolus vulgaris: Exploitation of New Genomic Resources -- What is Present at Common Bean Subtelomeres?: Large Resistance Gene Clusters, Knobs and khipu Satellite DNA -- Comparison of Gene Families: Seed Storage and other Seed Proteins -- A Comparison of Phenylpropanoid Pathway Gene Families in Common Bean. Focus on P450 and C4H Genes -- Phylogenomics: the Evolution of Common Bean as Seen from the Perspective of All of its Genes -- Prospects: The Importance of Common Bean as a Model Crop.