2018
Breeding and Genetic Mapping for Flooding Tolerance in Soybean
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
GeneticsGenomics
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Pengyin Chen, University of Missouri
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
319-18
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council
$82,000
Institution Funded:
University of Missouri
$82,000
Brief Project Summary:

Research funded by the Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council is identifying cultivars with flood tolerance so farmers can make the best selection decisions. They’re identifying new sources of flood tolerance from diverse soybean germplasm and incorporating it into high-yielding cultivars to develop new flood-tolerant soybean varieties. The varieties will yield well with or without flooding. The variety will be ideally suited to the Missouri Bootheel region and the Mississippi Delta where soils don’t drain well or other areas where flooding or waterlogging is a potential problem.

Key Benefactors:
Farmers, processors, consumers

Information And Results
Project Deliverables

1) Continue variety development and mapping of new genes.
2) Begin to map genes from wild soybeans with greater tolerance to flooding than cultivated types
3) Make new crosses among flood tolerant cultivated types and flood tolerant wild soybeans
4) Yield test lines under flooding and under optimum conditions

Final Project Results

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.