The primary focus for the wide hybridization research is to transfer novel traits not available in soybean to elite soybean varieties. Important traits have been identified in wild perennial Glycine species, but these species are not compatible by classical breeding methods. Wide hybridization uses a combination of classical genetic methods and in vitro technologies to overcome the incompatibility between plants of different species. This will allow us to produce fertile hybrids and eventually soybean varieties with genes from the perennial species. The 23 wild perennial Glycine species, currently available at the University of Illinois, are extremely diverse morphologically, cytologically...
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