2011
Developing soybean resistance to Asian rust pathogen
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Louisiana Soybean and Grain Research and Promotion Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
Crop protectionDiseaseField management
Parent Project:
Developing soybean resistance to Asian rust pathogen
Lead Principal Investigator:
Svetlana Oard, Louisiana State University
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Louisiana Soybean and Grain Research and Promotion Board
(n/a)
Institution Funded:
Louisiana State University
(n/a)
Brief Project Summary:

The goal of this continuing project is to develop soybean lines with enhanced resistance to soybean rust as well as a wide range of bacterial and fungal pathogens. The approach will be to develop plants producing a potent antimicrobial peptide PTH under conditions providing functional resistance to the fungal pathogens.


The specific objectives for 2010 are to:

~ Analyze transgenic soybean plants that were transformed with the vector for the production of PTH.

~ Optimize the transformation vector for high levels of PTH production. and

~ Optimize the PTH coding gene to obtain biologically active PTH in soybean leaf tissue.

Unique Keywords:
#soybean diseases
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Final Project Results

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