2009
Enhancing Soybean Yield by Manipulating the Expression of Seed Trait-Determining Genes (Year 2 of 8244)
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Contributor/Checkoff:
United Soybean Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
(none assigned)
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Aardra Kachroo, University of Kentucky
Co-Principal Investigators:
Said A Ghabrial, University of Kentucky
Project Code:
9244
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
United Soybean Board
(n/a)
Institution Funded:
University of Kentucky
(n/a)
Brief Project Summary:

Unique Keywords:
#breeding & genetics, #seed size, fatty acid synthesis, fad3 genes, gmrin gene, cytokinins, bpmv gene silencing vector
Information And Results
Final Project Results

Update:

Determination of seed size is a complex trait as proven here. No consistent positive results were shown after 5 years of lab experiments. It appears that no one plant gene, affecting either fatty acid or plant hormone or disease resistance as tested here, affects seed size.

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