• Identify genes and genomic region for yield and mine new yield alleles from exotic PIs.
• Develop a set of near isogenic lines for yield to confirm the yield QTL.
• Develop genome-wide selection models for yield selection
• Understand the genomic regions that affect yields and develop a novel breeding strategy for selection of PIs for future germplasm enhancement.
• Transfer of new genetic materials with exotic pedigree and high yield to commercial breeders via MTAs
• Release of new genetic materials with exotic pedigree and high yield potential.
• Germplasm and data will be made available for use by soybean breeders.
• Genomic selection evaluations will be useful in testing the effectiveness of this procedure when applied to exotic sources of genetic diversity. In addition, experimental lines that are high yielding and genetically diverse could potentially be released as varieties or experimental lines.
• Release of first high yield lines derived from G. tomentella.
• Germplasm well adapted to the early soybean production system to produce high yield and seeds with high germination.
• QTL for soybean yield improvement from wild and/or domesticated Japanese soybean.
• Validation of QTL from Japanese germplasm for soybean yield improvement.
• Develop SNP markers for the yield QTL from Japanese germplasm.
• Understand the regions under breeding selection from Japanese germplasm.
• Determine efficacy of yield QTL from Japanese germplasm across a range of maturity groups and genetic backgrounds.
• Determine the potential to combine yield alleles from Japanese soybean and wild soybean.
• Develop improved method for production of adapted breeding lines from wild soybean.
• Determine the proportion of the wild soybean genome transferred to adapted soybean breeding lines from the hybridization of soybean N7103 and wild soybean PI 366122.
• Publications describing results from USB supported research.
• Discover new sources of genetic variation in wild soybean that have the potential to enhance soybean yield.
• Identify and develop novel strategies that enhance soybean yield potential using wild soybean.
• Identify a core collection of 30 or fewer breeding lines from each soybean x wild soybean population that in the aggregate carry all SNP markers that can be identified in wild soybean. Convince public and private breeders to use these materials in their applied and basic breeding research