'Plant Breeding: Sustaining the Future' Abstracts of the XVIth EUCARPIA Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, 10-14 September 2001 THE PRESENCE OF TYPSIN INHIBITORS IN VICA FABA DURING GERMINATION M. MUZQUIZ, T. WELHAM, E. GUILLAMON, P. ALTRES, C. GOYOAGA, C. DOMENEY Dpto. Technologia de Alimentos, SGIT-INIA, Apdo 8111, 28080 Madrid, Spain

Trypsin inhibitors from some legumes depress growth and cause hypertrophy-hyperplaise and carcinogenic effects.  The main objective of this work was to analyse Vicia faba (var Alameda and Brocal) seeds during germination, to quantify the content of trypsin inhibitors and to analyse qualitative variation in trypsin inhibitors isoform patterns.  In this work a novel, convenient system to analyse trypsin inhibitors isoforms from Vicia faba has been developed.