2019
Utilization of Chile for winter-nursery progeny rows to supplement MG4 soybean variety development
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
GeneticsGenomics
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Leandro Mozzoni, University of Arkansas
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board
$30,900
Institution Funded:
University of Arkansas
$30,900
Brief Project Summary:

This effort uses a winter nursery in Chile for growing maturity group 4 progeny rows and reselection rows to support the transition into 80% maturity group 4 commodity variety development by 2021. The University of Arkansas soybean breeding program has been providing high-yielding maturity group 5 cultivars at low costs to growers, but it needs to rapidly expand the footprint in early maturities. Using a winter nursery for progeny rows enables breeders to perform two cycles of selections on a given calendar year, thus reducing the number of years it takes to bring maturity group 4 soybean varieties to the market.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, extension agents, soybean breeders, seed companies

Information And Results
Final Project Results

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