A new kidney bean cultivar, ‘Noghyeob 1’ was developed at the National Institute of Crop Science (NICS) in 2005.The kidney edible-pod bean, ‘Noghyeob 1’ was selected from a cross between KLG50074 and KLG50063. It has determinategrowth habit, white flower, green pod color, oval shape of crossed section of pod at the harvesting time for edible pod. It haswhite seed coat and middle seed size (21.1 grams per 100 seeds). The average yield of edible pod of ‘Noghyeob 1’ was 24.25M/T per hectare in the yield trials which was carried out at the green house in spring and autumn in 2005. This yield levelwas 7 percent higher than that of the check cultivar ‘Kangnangkong 1’.
