The project's goal is to provide long-term and stable protection against stress caused by soybean pathogens. The approach will be to develop new techniques that characterize the resistance to disease that cause premature plant death and reduced yields. The focus of the project will be on brown stem rot, white mold and stem blight/stem canker due to their importance in Wisconsin soybean production environment. Results of research indicate that higher and more stable sources of resistance are needed to consistently reduce stress caused by these diseases. It is his hope that new insight developed by this project will lead to new methods to study the genetic basis and function of resistance...