Michigan plant about two million acres of soybean annually with an average annual production value over a million dollars in recent years. Michigan soybean growers face challenges of diseases and insects such as soybean cyst nematode (SCN), white mold, sudden death syndrome (SDS), and seedling diseases. Using resistant varieties to these diseases and insects is the most economic solutions to these challenges. Due to pathogen evolutions, some resistance genes deployed in current varieties have been broken and new sources of resistance need to be used. Climate changes will likely bring new diseases or insects to Michigan and we need to improve Michigan soybean for the new diseases or insects.Michigan...
This project is a long-term research program. Progress will be reported at midterm and at the end of the project for the year 2020.
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.