2021
Identifying key targets for soybean seed protein concentration improvement by creating a virtual soybean model
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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:
Justin McGrath, USDA-ARS
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
2120-152-0116
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
United Soybean Board
$113,424
Institution Funded:
USDA-ARS
$113,424
Brief Project Summary:
Unique Keywords:
#breeding & genetics
Information And Results
Project Summary

Project Objectives

Project Deliverables

Progress Of Work

Update:
A core aspect of BioCro, which lacked the necessary flexibility to adequately represent nitrogen uptake and distribution and properly couple BioCro to the other models, was augmented to allow those changes. With this in place, we can being work writing the nitrogen uptake and distribution model, and coupling BioCro, which is a crop growth model, to gene-regulatory network and metabolite concentration models. Together, these will allow one to model crop growth over a season, predicting seed protein concentration and linking those concentrations to specific genes.

Final Project Results

Benefit To Soybean Farmers

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