2018
Breeding of Glyphosate-Resistant Soybean Cultivars
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Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
GeneticsGenomics
Lead Principal Investigator:
Ted Helms, North Dakota State University
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Project Code:
QSSB
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Brief Project Summary:

The grant would enable NDSU to continue the process of developing glyphosate-resistant soybean cultivars. This project will significantly reduce seed costs to soybean growers. A new glyphosate-resistant cultivar could be released to seed producers as soon as 2017. NDSU has a very large breeding program devoted to development of glyphosate-resistant cultivars.
Monsanto has stated that starting in 2015 growers will be able to save their own seed for planting the following year. However, the private company cultivars are also protected under a variety patent. Varieties developed at NDSU are not patented. The cost savings will occur the second and subsequent years after the initial purchase...

Unique Keywords:
#breeding & genetics, #glyphosate resistant, #public soybean breeding, #soybean breeding
Information And Results
Project Deliverables

The intent is to have seed of glyphosate resistant cultivars available for seed increase and distribution to certified seed growers by 2017.

Final Project Results

Updated July 2, 2018:

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July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018
Annual Report: Breeding of Glyphosate-Resistant Soybean Cultivars
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ted Helms, Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University
Cooperating Scientists: Dr. Berlin Nelson, Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University

Growers would like to purchase glyphosate-resistant soybean varieties and be able to save their own seed for planting the next year. These varieties need to high-yielding, lodging-resistant, tolerant to iron-deficiency chlorosis (IDC), and have good disease and pest resistance. Soybean varieties are protected by a patent on the glyphosate-resistant gene (construct) and often protected by a second patent on the variety. Monsanto has provided a website to explain these issues (http://www.soybeans.com/patent.aspx). The purpose of this research is to provide superior glyphosate-resistant varieties that have been developed by North Dakota State University (NDSU). At this time, one glyphosate-resistant soybean variety that was developed by NDSU is available to growers, which is named ND17009GT. ND17009GT is a 00.9 maturity cultivar.

Glyphosate-resistant experimental lines have been developed by the NDSU Soybean Breeding Project. Crosses were initiated in the summer of 2010 and new crosses have been initiated in every subsequent year. As part of the continuing process of developing new lines, 9,150 plant-rows were planted in the spring of 2017. In the 2017 growing season, the first year of replicated yield testing was conducted for 1,152 new glyphosate-resistant experimental lines. In the 2017 growing season, 174 experimental lines were tested for the second year of yield evaluation. Thirty of those 174 experimental lines were advanced to the third year of yield testing in the 2018 growing season. A total of 5,440 plots were devoted to this project in 2017. These advanced experimental lines vary in maturity from a 00.7 to a 0.9 maturity.

Seed of four advanced lines that were very competitive with private company RR2 varieties for yield and agronomic traits were increased in Chile during the 2017-2018 winter season. In the spring of 2018, we have planted about two acres of seed increase for each of these four experimental lines.

The benefit to the North Dakota soybean industry would be to reduce the cost of soybean seed for varieties that are glyphosate-resistant. This would reduce input costs because growers could save their own seed of glyphosate-resistant soybean varieties that were developed at NDSU. They could then plant this seed without paying a technology fee. At present, farmers must purchase expensive new seed each year.

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.