2011
Drought Tolerant Varieties for the Midwest and South: Building on Success (Year 1 of 1213)
Contributor/Checkoff:
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
(none assigned)
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Tommy Carter, North Carolina State University
Co-Principal Investigators:
T W Rufty, North Carolina State University
Larry C Purcell, University of Arkansas
Thomas R Sinclair, University of Florida
H Roger Boerma, University of Georgia
James Orf, University of Minnesota
Felix Fritschi, University of Missouri
James Specht, University of Nebraska
+6 More
Project Code:
1213
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Institution Funded:
Brief Project Summary:

Unique Keywords:
#environmental stress
Information And Results
Project Deliverables

In Nebraska, we will 1) provide field tours of the drought tolerance screening and testing nurseries to visiting public and proprietary breeders, 2) work with the instructors of graduate plant breeding classes who want to provide their students with in-field visual demonstrations of breeding programs for greater drought tolerance, and 3) exchange seed with public and private breeders via MTAs to encourage wider use of the germplasm.
In Arkansas, we will 1) Share germplasm and testing data with private breeders and encourage them to use our drought tolerant lines for crossing, and 2) Design cooperative tests and demonstration plots, encourage private breeders to participate in growing the tests.

In Minnesota, we will be sharing drought tolerant germplasm with the public breeding program at South Dakota State University as well as the notes above about sharing with the private sector.

In Georgia, we will distribute QTL marker data to enable efficient industry transfer of slow wilting trait to elite varieties from PI 471938.

In North Carolina, will encourage private breeders to visit our Sandhills research station in August and pursue collaborative research.

Final Project Results

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.