Soybean aphids can cost Illinois growers millions of dollars in lost yield, insecticide and spraying costs. Genetic resistance to aphids is the cheapest, most reliable and most environmentally benign of all the methods for aphid control. Cloning Rag1 and Rag2 will both facilitate the creation of aphid-resistant elite germplasm and speed the discovery of new aphid resistance genes when the resistance mediated by these loci is inevitably defeated.
The United Soybean Research Retention policy will display final reports with the project once completed but working files will be purged after three years. And financial information after seven years. All pertinent information is in the final report or if you want more information, please contact the project lead at your state soybean organization or principal investigator listed on the project.