2011
Rapid Development of Environmentally Stable Mid-Oleic Soybeans (1237)
Contributor/Checkoff:
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
(none assigned)
Lead Principal Investigator:
Andrea J Cardinal, North Carolina State University
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
1237
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Institution Funded:
Brief Project Summary:

Unique Keywords:
#seed composition, #winter nursery, high oleic oil
Information And Results
Project Deliverables

Provide acceleration of the development of mid to high oleic breeding materials

Final Project Results

Updated October 30, 2017:
The objective of this project is to continue to support a scientist (since 2004) to manage a winter nursery in Puerto Rico to expedite the breeding cycle of lines containing genes with targeted compositional quality traits. A well-run winter nursery, complete with mobile lights to manipulate daylength, can achieve two backcrosses per offseason and thereby decrease overall development of a targeted line form 4-6 years to 2-3 years.

In 2010, most breeding focused on advancing mid-oleic lines from several universities. Currently in winter 2010-11, a source of high oleic (>80%), that carry mutations for two recessive genes FAD2-1a and FAD2-1b, are being backcrossed into elite breeding lines that will serve as recurrent parents in a marker assisted breeding program. At this pace, this University of Missouri non-GMO source of high oleic can enter broad yield testing in 2013.

This project is an ongoing component to a larger project that supports the breeding of mid to high oleic soybean varieties - which are still in development at this juncture.

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.