2019
Breeding new and improved soybean cultivars with high yield and disease resistance
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
GeneticsGenomics
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Leandro Mozzoni, University of Arkansas
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board
$194,499
Institution Funded:
University of Arkansas
$194,499
Brief Project Summary:

Changes in agronomic practices or challenges should prompt adjustments in breeding. Understanding how to grow a crop improves the ability to breed improved varieties. That philosophy undergirds the University of Arkansas soybean breeding program, which develops high-yielding soybean varieties adapted to environments and challenges in the state. The program is working on a wide variety of soybean genetics, but that they adapt as needed to key challenges. Breeding is a tool that helps farmers continuously improve as agronomic factors change. For example, shifts in weather patterns could lead to changes in disease pressure. Changing crop rotations impact soil pests and nutrient availability. Herbicide resistance in weeds influences genetic technology systems.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, soybean breeders, seed companies

Information And Results
Final Project Results

VALUE TO SOYBEAN INDUSTRY: The UA breeding program provides high-yielding cultivars with low costs to growers. The continued release of public varieties, such as Ozark, UA 4805, Osage, UA 5612, UA 5213C, UA 5014C, UA 5414RR, and UA 5715GT, not only ensured the availability of high-yielding conventional varieties with low seed cost for Arkansas growers, but also served as a crossing germplasm for many public and private breeding programs in the US.

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.