Iron is an important plant micronutrient and lack of available iron in soil can cause significant problems in crops such as soybean. Soybean grown inlow-iron soils, especially in calcareous soils, exhibit Iron Deficiency Chlorosis (IDC) resulting in poor growth and significant yield losses. Such iron-limitingsoil environments affect more than 1 million acres of soybean production in Nebraska, and several million acres in important soybean production areas inthe north central US. Our goal is to improve the physiological and genetic understanding of the IDC tolerance response in soybean. To do so, we areproposing to combine newly developed breeding material with contrasting tolerance...
The outcome of our proposed research will be detailed knowledge of mechanism(s) conferring tolerance toIDC and target gene(s) for breeding IDC tolerance traits into high-yield soybean cultivars.
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.