Many other varieties cannot cope with conditions in the UK, the University of Warwick says.
Prof Eric Holub, pictured with Warwick Crop Centre research fellow Rosanne Maguire, said seed was being harvested to produce food on a farm next yearUniversity researchers have celebrated the first commercial harvest of a homegrown bean.However scientists at the University of Warwick have been working to create a variety that could be planted by British famers.
They are in the second year of trials and the university's harvest of seeds from this year will be used by a farmer to grow crops of Godiva and Olivia next summer.Godiva, a blonde-coloured kidney-sized bean, takes its name from 11th Century Coventry noblewoman Lady Godiva, while Olivia - a dry, black bean - is named after Shakespeare's character in Twelfth Night.
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