“…The following traits: lodging, general adaptation score, insertion of the first pod, insertion of the last pod, plant height, length of second, third, fourth and fifth internodes, and the epicotyl diameter enabled to differentiate the common bean genotypes with regard to upright plant architecture. Previous studies showed that Mesoamerican common bean genotypes differed for lodging (Mendes et al, 2011;Pereira et al, 2012); plant architecture score (da Cunha et al, 2005;de Lima et al, 2012); general adaptation score (Ribeiro et al, 2010); lodging and plant height (Soltani et al, 2016); lodging, general adaptation score, and insertion of the first pod (Jost et al, 2013); insertion of the first pod, plant height, length of the second, third, fourth and fifth internodes, and the epicotyl diameter (Moura et al, 2013); lodging, general adaptation score, insertion of the first pod, insertion of the last pod, plant height, length of the second and third internodes (Ribeiro et al, 2018a). Thus, all these traits can be used for the selection of common bean lines with upright plant architecture.…”