2020
High Oleic/Low Linolenic Acid Soybean Deployment
Contributor/Checkoff:
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
(none assigned)
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Kristin Bilyeu, USDA-ARS
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
2020-162-0131
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Institution Funded:
$708,965
Brief Project Summary:

Unique Keywords:
#breeding & genetics
Information And Results
Project Deliverables

Final Project Results

Updated January 27, 2021:
Final Report
To achieve maximum profitability, the US producer is dependent upon the availability of locally adapted, competitively yielding soybean varieties that sustainably translate new developments into opportunities and prosperity throughout the soy value-chain. High oleic/low linolenic (HOLL) soybean varieties provide the food market with a high value, market-driven functional soybean oil with zero trans fats, and offer an innovative solution to recent labeling and ingredients rules set in motion by trans fats issues. This ongoing project conducted advanced soybean HOLL germplasm and variety development and research, built upon seven years of continuous investment by USB. In this phase of the project, we expanded the portfolio of high yielding HOLL soybean germplasm and varieties appropriate for different management systems and targeted to all US maturity groups. We closed the dedicated backcrossing program in Puerto Rico and salvaged the experimental soybean lines from that program. The result of this project is new profit opportunities for all US soybean producers with HOLL varieties.

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.