2023
Development of climate-smart practices associated with a drought-tolerant inoculant and repository of soybean-related microbiomes for climate resiliency.
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Mid-South Soybean Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
Genetics
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Woo-Suk Chang, University of Texas-Arlington
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Mid-South Soybean Board
$60,000
Institution Funded:
University of Texas-Arlington
$60,000
Brief Project Summary:
Building on established collaborations, field study will be conducted to capture snapshots of microbial communities at planting, R1 stage, and harvest in order to create a repository of soybean rhizosphere microbiome data. This will gauge what constitutes successful growing conditions and regions on a microbiological scale to aid further application of our drought-tolerant inoculant and other potential bioinoculants.
Unique Keywords:
#drought, #microbiomes
Information And Results
Project Summary

Building on established collaborations, field study will be conducted to capture snapshots of microbial communities at planting, R1 stage, and harvest in order to create a repository of soybean rhizosphere microbiome data. This will gauge what constitutes successful growing conditions and regions on a microbiological scale to aid further application of our drought-tolerant inoculant and other potential bioinoculants.

Project Objectives

To develop climate-smart practices associated with a drought-tolerant inoculant using microbiome analysis and determine effects of climate change on efficiency of the symbiosis and soybean yield.

Project Deliverables

Microbiome dataset via co-occurrence networks; Development of a soybean-related microbiome repository in the Mid-South; Selection of opportune microbial communities.

Progress Of Work

Final Project Results

Benefit To Soybean Farmers

Soil health and resiliency. Carbon credit by adopting a climate-smart practice involved in bioinoculants. More sustainable soybean production.

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.