In 2007, about nine percent of the US soybean acreage and twelve percent of the Illinois acreage were planted to non-GMO soybean varieties. The private seed industry has done an excellent job in developing new high yielding soybean varieties and delivering them to farmers, however, most of the varieties are GMO varieties with herbicide tolerance. This trend is anticipated to continue. The objective of this project is to encourage the development of non-GMO varieties, which are competitive with those produced by industry. The funding will be used by two soybean breeding programs (IUIUC and SUIC) to develop high-yielding, non-GMO varieties with needed disease and nematode resistances.
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.