2010
Multiple Disease Resistant Soybeans: Gene Discovery and Transfer of Disease Resistance into Soybean (Year 1 of 0262)
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Contributor/Checkoff:
United Soybean Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
(none assigned)
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Schuyler Korban, University of Illinois-Carbondale
Co-Principal Investigators:
Said A Ghabrial, University of Kentucky
Glen Hartman, USDA/ARS-University of Illinois
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Project Code:
0262
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
United Soybean Board
(n/a)
Institution Funded:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(n/a)
Brief Project Summary:

Unique Keywords:
#soybean diseases
Information And Results
Project Deliverables

1) Screen and identify genes for resistance to each of the following diseases: sudden death syndrome (SDS), Sclerotina stem rot, brown stem rot, Rhizoctonia root rot, charcoal rot, Phytophthora rot, soybean aphid, and SCN using virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS).
2) Develop reliable and quick disease/pest assays.
3) Inoculate plants with pathogens/pests to assess the functionality of these genes.
4) Begin introducing some of these identified genes into constructs for RNAi (gene knockouts) and overexpression in soybean.

Final Project Results

The United Soybean Research Retention policy will display final reports with the project once completed but working files will be purged after three years. And financial information after seven years. All pertinent information is in the final report or if you want more information, please contact the project lead at your state soybean organization or principal investigator listed on the project.