<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana">In this study, 180 genotypes of cultivated <em>Phaseolus vulgaris </em>from the Caribbean were evaluated with the phaseolin marker. All the accessions belonged to the germplasm collection of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Beans from Cuba were mostly S phaseolin (68.0 %) type, with small seed size, red and black seed color and type II or type III growth habit. These were followed by beans with T phaseolin (20.0 %) and finally by those with B, CH and Sd phaseolin. In Haiti, the most common phaseolin was T (48.1%), the majority of which were large seeded bush beans, mostly of the red mottled seed color class. Many of the remaining accessions were S phaseolin (42.6%) and had small black seed, although a few had B, Sb and Sd phaseolin (4.6, 2.8 and 1.9% of genotypes, respectively). In Puerto Rico, T phaseolin was in the majority with 57.1%, most of these with large red or red mottled seed. S phaseolin was represented by 42.9 % of landraces some of which had small yellow, black or white seed. In the Dominican Republic, the T phaseolin was very abundant (85.7%) the majority of which were medium to large seeded bush beans all of which were red mottled. A smaller proportion of Dominican landraces had S and B phaseolin (9.5% and 4.8% respectively). Finally, in Jamaica, T phaseolin was found for 40.0 % of the landraces, B phaseolin was equally common and 20% of the landraces had S phaseolin although this was based on a small sample of genotypes. The phaseolin patterns indicated the prevalence of both Andean and Mesoamerican beans in the Caribbean.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Verdana"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana">Se evaluó el tipo de faseolina en 180 accesiones cultivadas de <em>Phaseolus vulgaris </em>del Caribe de la colección del Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT). En fríjoles de Cuba (25 accesiones) predominó el tipo S (68%, semilla pequeña, roja o negra y hábito de crecimiento de tipos II y III), seguidos por fríjoles con faseolina T (20 %) y con un bajo porcentaje los tipos B, CH y Sd. En Haití (108 accesiones) las faseolinas más comunes fueron T (48.1%, semilla grande, rojo moteado y hábito arbustivo) y S (42.6%, semilla pequeña, negra), y unas pocas mostraron faseolinas B, Sb y Sd. En los fríjoles de Puerto Rico (21 accesiones) las faseolinas más comunes fueron T (57.14%, semilla grande, rojo moteada) y S (42.86%, semilla pequeña amarilla, negra o blanca). En los de República Dominicana (21 accesiones) abundó el tipo T (85.7%, semilla grande o mediana rojomoteada). En los fríjoles de Jamaica (5) predominaron las faseolinas T y B (40% de cada una). Los patrones de faseolina indicaron la prevalencia tanto de fríjoles Mesoamericanos como Andinos.</span></p></span>