2013
The Use of VIGS Technology to Decrease Yield-Reducing Stress in Soybeans (Year 3 of 1251)
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Contributor/Checkoff:
United Soybean Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
(none assigned)
Parent Project:
The Use of VIGS Technology to Decrease Yield-Reducing Stress in Soybeans (Year 1 of 1251)
Lead Principal Investigator:
John Hill, Iowa State University
Co-Principal Investigators:
Thomas Baum, Iowa State University
Leonor Leandro, Iowa State University
Daren Mueller, Iowa State University
Dean Malvick, University of Minnesota
Kerry Pedley, USDA/ARS-Fort Detrick, MD
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Project Code:
1320-532-5604
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
United Soybean Board
(n/a)
Institution Funded:
Iowa State University
(n/a)
Brief Project Summary:

Unique Keywords:
#environmental stress, #soybean gene expression, #virus-inducted gene silencing
Information And Results
Project Deliverables

- Identify soybean genetic networks and genes involved in stress resistance pathways as well as those contributing to yield to enable improvements in yield and quality.
- Reduce stress-related yield and quality loss for soybean producers by incorporation of genes targeted at increasing yield and quality.
- Provide enabling technology to global soybean researchers to discern genetic control of important traits in soybean.
- Develop library of soybean genes involved in various traits that will be available to soybean researchers. Continue to distribute vector to enable research on soybean traits that will improve yield and quality.
- Enable collaboration among the nation’s premier soybean research scientists to conduct genetic research that will improve the soybean

Final Project Results

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