The goal of this project is to provide soybean breeders a faster and more efficient means to determine and predict resistance to reniform nematode through the development of a molecular screening system. Understanding the genes that are involved in a resistant plant’s defense against reniform nematode and developing discrete genetic points (DNA biomarkers) that accompany this resistance can accelerate the detection of resistant genes in observed lines and implement the introgression or resistance into advance genetic lines.
Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, extension agents, soybean breeders, seed companies