One of the main goals of the Purdue Soybean Breeding program has been to develop high yield varieties with multiple types of disease resistance not usually found in varieties from private seed companies. In an effort to speed up the variety development process, a procedure to select soybean breeding lines based on molecular markers linked to disease resistance genes is proposed. The researchers will establish a working relationship between Purdue's applied soybean breeding group and Purdue's translational genomics group. The specific goal of the project is to facilitate the implementation of a robust high throughput marker assisted selection system at Purdue University to speed soybean...