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Research Project:
Identification and Utilization of Exotic Germplasm to Improve Soybean Productivity
Location: Soybean/maize Germplasm, Pathology, and Genetics Research
Project Number: 3611-21000-023-06
Project Type:
Specific Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Jul 28, 2008
End Date: Mar 31, 2009
Objective:
Our objective is the identification and utilization of exotic germplasm to improve U.S. soybean productivity. We will deliver high yielding lines derived from exotic germplasm that are available to all U.S. soybean breeders developing new cultivars.
Approach:
Develop high yielding experimental lines derived from exotic germplasm accessions and release those lines to breeders, expecially in private industry, to be used as parents in cultivar development programs. Identify exotic germplasm and experimental lines derived from exotic germplasm that can improve yield and seed quality in the early planting production system in the midsouth. Develop and test genetic mapping populations that can identify genomic regions from exotic germplasm that can increase yield in U.S. cultivars. Use SNP marker technology to characterize ancestral lines and modern cultivars to determine genetic changes that have occurred as a result of 70 years of soybean breeding in the U.S. and compare those changes to the genetic changes that have occurred in our breeding of high yielding lines from exotic germplasm.
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Last Modified: 01/14/2009
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