2015
Developing charcoal rot resistant soybeans
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Kansas Soybean Commission
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
Crop protectionDiseaseField management
Parent Project:
Developing charcoal rot resistant soybeans
Lead Principal Investigator:
Daniel Zurek, Pittsburg State University
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Kansas Soybean Commission
(n/a)
Institution Funded:
Pittsburg State University
(n/a)
Brief Project Summary:

The objective of this project is to create soybeans resistant to the charcoal rot, with the ultimate goal of producing a transgenic soybean strain able to thrive in Kansas and other locations where charcoal rot is endemic and unavoidable. This disease is the top soybean crop disease in Kansas. Treatment strategies to-date have included crop rotation, reduced seeding, and irrigation. None of the treatment options are ideal. Therefore, the identification of charcoal rot resistant soybean plants is the goal.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, plant pathologists, agronomists, breeders

Information And Results
Final Project Results

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.