2017
Coordinated National Evaluation of High-yield Soybean Lines with Improved Oil and Meal Composition Traits (1720-152-0107)
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Contributor/Checkoff:
United Soybean Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
(none assigned)
Parent Project:
Quality Traits Regional Test (Year 1 of 0221)
Lead Principal Investigator:
George Graef, University of Nebraska
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
1720-152-0107
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
United Soybean Board
$85,000
Leveraged Funding (Non-Checkoff):
Total leveraged funding contributing to development of lines that enter the Quality Traits Tests is conservatively estimated to be in excess of $6 million annually. All US cooperators receive funds for their breeding programs from state commodity boards and many are involved in the USB-funded oil, protein, carbohydrate, and high-oleic projects. The USDA researchers receive federal funds for their programs, and industry cooperators have company funds. Our Canadian cooperators receive funds from their provincial or federal sources as well. This project coordinates efforts and facilitates information exchange among programs to enhance the rate and quality of progress in achieving USB goals.
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Institution Funded:
University of Nebraska
$85,000
Brief Project Summary:

Unique Keywords:
#seed composition, #seed composition, protein, oil, quality traits, high oleic, high sugar, carbohydrates
Information And Results
Final Project Results

Update:
An effort was made to coordinate NIR calibrations among some of the breeders to more effectively make use of this technology and ensure accuracy across institutions. Still, more work will be required to include all public breeders. The final goal will be for all breeders to coordinate their NIR calibrations so that their individual data matches that of the data take by a common lab. Ultimately, there will be less need for a reliance of a common lab to provide all the data from all samples, thereby saving time, money and providing results in a more timely manner. Success in this aim could be valuable to serve as a model for the quest for uniform results across the value chain.
The objectives of the Quality Traits project have been rolled into and combined with the USDA Uniform Trials project for 2017. In this way, a full assessment of prospective varieties will be made from the USDA test for their quality traits and yield and agronomic performance.

The Quality Traits test is a cooperative test (2001-2016) among public soybean breeders and is conducted across numerous states and locations to test and develop soybean varieties that contain improved quallity traits, These traits include increased protein and oil content, high oleic, low linolenic, modified carbohydrate traits of increased sugar and/or low oligosacchrides, modified amino acid content, and low phytate. The annual results for each year can be obtained by contacting Dr. George Graef of the University of Nebraska at ggraef1@unl.ed.The experimental varieties developed under this program ultimately lead to released varieties with improved qualtiy traits that either come through direct release to the market or as private varieties that contain as a source the germplasm developed through by breeders from this project.

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.