Because of high demand for soy products worldwide, higher yielding soybean cultivars would enhance
the profits of U.S. soybean producers. Genomic selection is a revolutionary breeding methodology
designed to fully exploit current high-throughput genotyping technologies, and holds promise to
dramatically increase rate of genetic gain for complex traits such as yield. The successful completion of
this study would fully test genomic selection in soybean and provide a giant step forward to actual
implementation of genomic selection in the UNL Soybean Breeding Program, leading to faster
development of higher yielding cultivars. Besides impacting the UNL program, results and methodology
would flow into the larger soybean breeding community, potentially impacting soybean breeding methods
nationwide.