2019
Soybean breeding and genetic improvement for Michigan environments
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Michigan Soybean Promotion Committee
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
GeneticsGenomics
Parent Project:
Soybean breeding and genetic improvement for Michigan environments
Lead Principal Investigator:
Dechun Wang, Michigan State University
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
1913
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Michigan Soybean Promotion Committee
$100,000
Institution Funded:
Michigan State University
$100,000
Brief Project Summary:

Michigan plants about two million acres of soybean annually with an average annual production value over a million dollars in recent years. Michigan soybean growers face challenges of diseases and insects such as soybean cyst nematode (SCN), white mold, sudden death syndrome (SDS), and soybean aphids. Using resistant varieties to these diseases or insects is the most economic solution to these challenges.
Michigan exports soybean and soybean products and competes with competitors in the world markets. Protein and oil content of the soybean or the soybean products are among the major factors that affect the competitiveness of soybean or the products. Increasing the protein and oil content...

Unique Keywords:
#breeding & genetics
Information And Results
Final Project Results

Progress in 2019:
-6,000 breeding lines were tested for yield and other agronomic traits:
-148 lines in advanced yield trials at 4 locations
-564 lines in preliminary yield trials at 3 locations
-Over 5000 lines in single row plots at 1 location
-Over 200 lines were tested for white mold resistance in our white mold disease nursery at Montcalm
-Over 200 lines were tested for SDS resistance in our SDS disease nursery in Decatur
-5,667 lines were tested with DNA markers for resistance to SCN, phytophthora, white mold, SDS, and soybean aphids
-36 MSU varieties were tested in Michigan Soybean Performance Trials and/or in the Michigan Organic Soybean Variety Trials
-MSU varieties are the highest yielding varieties in 4 of the 5 non-GMO trials
-At 2 locations, MSU varieties are the highest yielding varieties of all varieties tested, including GMO varieties.

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.