2019
High Oleic Soy Diversity: Development of high yield competitively high oleic/low linolenic acid soybean varieties for diverse US geographies (1920-162-0121-B)
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Contributor/Checkoff:
United Soybean Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
(none assigned)
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
John Schillinger, Schillinger Genetics, Inc.
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
1920-162-0121-B
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
United Soybean Board
$1,189,272
Leveraged Funding (Non-Checkoff):
$14,000 applied for
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Institution Funded:
Schillinger Genetics, Inc.
$1,189,272
Brief Project Summary:

Unique Keywords:
#high oleic, low linolenic, breeding, fad2 gene, #seed composition
Information And Results
Project Deliverables

• Winter 2018-19 - display HOLL refined products at 5 trade shows.
• Market HOLL refined oil to all key vegetable oil companies in US, Japan, and Europe.
• Develop contracts for non-GMO HOLL with 6 processing food companies. Target for total contracted acres for 2020 will be 300,000+.
• Discover 20+ new HOLL product candidates from 2019 yield test and assemble 2000 new experimental product candidates that have been screened and selected for HOLL oil profile for 2020 testing across the US.
• 2021 contracted acres of non-GMO HOLL reaches 1MM acres.

Final Project Results

Updated December 9, 2019:
Benson Hill has made good progress with this project in the 2019 season. We have gained some experience in working with the oil traits and have become more efficient in working these populations. This is important because we have been able to increase the number of lines we are working with. Our progress has been good and as we identify better lines in this part of our program, it helps us to make advances more quickly. We have been working this summer to evaluate our nurseries and re-verify the rows we have been growing in the field through our marker lab. Over 30% of our nursery work is related to the high oleic trait. We have over 20 locations where we have our lines being tested for yield, agronomics and disease tolerance. Our seedstock production is, for the most part, in decent shape with maybe a little later harvest than normal. A very significant part of our seedstock production is in the high oleic varieties. We have been encouraged with our progress in the high oleics.

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