“…Over the last decade, genome-wide association study (GWAS) has become a popular approach for studying traits of agricultural importance and has gained popularity particularly for screening a great number of accessions to gain insight into understanding the genetic basis of complex traits ( Yu et al, 2006 ). In common bean, GWAS has been used to identify genes controlling traits such as disease resistance ( Shi et al, 2011 ; Perseguini et al, 2016 ; Zuiderveen et al, 2016 ; Tock et al, 2017 , Fritsche-Neto et al, 2019 ), drought-tolerance related traits ( Galeano et al, 2012 ; Hoyos-Villegas et al, 2017 ), agronomic traits in general ( Nemli et al, 2014 ; Kamfwa et al, 2015b ; Moghaddam et al, 2016 ; Ates et al, 2018 ; Nascimento et al, 2018 ; Resende et al, 2018 ), nitrogen fixation ( Kamfwa et al, 2015a ), cooking time ( Cichy et al, 2015 ), flooding tolerance ( Soltani et al, 2017 ; Soltani et al, 2018 ), content of micronutrients ( Mahajan et al, 2017 ; Katuuramu et al, 2018 ; Myers et al, 2019 ; Diaz et al, 2020 ; Erdogmus et al, 2020 ), and pod shattering ( Rau et al, 2019 ).…”