This project focuses on understanding and improving Minnesota soybean quality traits with regard to seed development and protein/oil levels by generating gene expression profiles from the developing seed of recombinant inbred lines. The researchers will map expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) from soybean seed in a recombinant inbred line population and identify eQTL that contribute to variation in seed protein and oil levels. This information will be used in future breeding efforts.
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