The goal of this project is to develop soybean populations for future evaluation and to continue as cooperator in USDA Uniform Tests, Southern States. The main research effort focuses on the USDA Uniform Cooperative Tests, growing 12 tests in 3 locations and evaluating public breeding lines of Maturity Groups V, VI, VII and VIII. This continues to be a major resource of genetic material, and a great testing network to evaluate new genotypes from all public breeding programs in the Southeast. The program also plans to develop conventional high-oleic cultivars. The South is ideal to produce high-oleic soybeans — the higher temperatures during final seed development, the higher the oleic acid content.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, Extension agents, geneticists, soybean breeders, seed companies