2019
Rhg1, cqSCN Loci and Epigenetic Determinants of Resistance to Soybean Cyst Nematode (1920-172-0122-B)
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Contributor/Checkoff:
United Soybean Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
(none assigned)
Parent Project:
Improved Resistance to Soybean Cyst Nematode via Rhg1 and Other Soybean Loci (Year 1 of 1420-532-5643)
Lead Principal Investigator:
Andrew Bent, University of Wisconsin
Co-Principal Investigators:
Brian Diers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matthew Hudson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Project Code:
1920-172-0122-B
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
United Soybean Board
(n/a)
Institution Funded:
University of Wisconsin - Madison
(n/a)
Brief Project Summary:

Unique Keywords:
#nematodes, #soybean cyst nematode, scn, genetic resistance
Information And Results
Final Project Results

Updated December 10, 2019:
The research team made progress on multiple fronts in our identification and manipulation of plant traits that control soybean resistance to soybean cyst nematode.
Highlights include:
• Soybean germplasm development and characterization for both naturally occurring and transgenically developed new versions of the Rhg1 locus, which plays a major role in SCN resistance.
• Two scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals, one reporting early gene expression responses of soybean to soybean cyst nematode HG type 0, and the other reporting the unexpected and usefully predictive presence of a "copia retrotransposon" (mobile DNA element) within one of the Peking-type Rhg1 genes.
• Two additional scientific manuscripts submitted to peer-reviewed journals, reporting that the gamma-SNAP encoded at cqSCN-006 contributes to SCN resistance, and reporting syntaxins that contribute to SCN resistance.
• Additional proteins identified by the research team that are contributors to SCN resistance.
• Achievement of new focus on a smaller set of candidate genes that are the likely cause of the SCN resistance trait conferred by the cqSCN-007 quantitative trait locus.
• Development and initial use of Rhg1 locus DNA methylation assays to assess the potential contribution of differential Rhg1 locus methylation to SCN resistance.

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