With the objective to study the genetic diversity and to identify possible repetitive acess of
beans, 34 genetics samples, of the Germplasm Active Bank from National Rice and Bean Research Center
(CNPAF), were studied, through ten quantitative and fenologic descriptors, submeted to multivariate analysis.
The canonic variables technique determined that all traits were important for acess description. In addition,
the clustering techniques (nearest neighbor method, using Mahalanobis distance) identified duplicated
acessions of beans, from black and castor oilbean commercial groups.