2020
Establishment of soybean transformation services to advance basic and applied plant biology research towards development of new varieties with improved yield and quality traits
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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:
Veena Veena, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
2020-152-0124
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
United Soybean Board
$169,843
Institution Funded:
Danforth Plant Science Center
$169,843
Brief Project Summary:
Unique Keywords:
#breeding & genetics
Information And Results
Project Summary

Project Objectives

Project Deliverables

Progress Of Work

Update:
September 15, 2020 Report
Efforts to evaluate and optimize Soybean transformation methods as a service platform is progressing well and on track. Experiments conducted to-date showed the generation of stable transgenic sectors/ tissue after Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of soybean cotyledons. Further evaluation and detailed optimization work has been planned and in progress to identify a method that is efficient and robust for the establishment of the Soybean transformation pipeline.

Final Project Results

Update:
We successfully established the Soybean transformation service platform at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. The system is up and running and utilized by the internal and external scientific community. Through this pipeline, we hope to accelerate the pace of generating soybean varieties with improved yields, enhanced nutritional value, longer shelf life, and resistance to drought, frost, or insect pests through this successful outcome. The establishment of the Soybean transformation service platform at the Danforth Center expands the soybean transformation capacity in our region. The establishment of this pipeline also alleviates the backlog caused by the strained capacity of the limited number of research labs and public facilities within Missouri and the entire U.S. that offer transformation expertise/services specific to soybeans.

Benefit To Soybean Farmers

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.