Wild soybean (Glycine soja) has abundant genetic diversity and contains genes that have not been used in a commercial soybean breeding program, but it is difficult to use in soybean breeding unless favorable and undesirable traits are identified. Researchers previously developed Recombinant Inbred Line (RIL) populations derived from crosses between the soybean cultivar Williams 82 and two G. soja accessions. They also found RILs with favorable traits such as pod numbers per node, node numbers per plant, and seed sizes, as well as favorable plant architecture traits. Project objectives include identifying genes and/or genomic regions associated with these yield-related traits and to develop molecular markers for selection of yield-related traits in soybeans.Key Benefactors: farmers, plant breeders, geneticists
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Results will be published.
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.