2019
Soybean Breeding & Genetics
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
GeneticsGenomics
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Vince Pantalone, University of Tennessee-Institute of Agriculture
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
19-012-R
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board
$75,000
Institution Funded:
University of Tennessee-Institute of Agriculture
$75,000
Brief Project Summary:

This project engages in further applied variety development research. Soybean producers need excellent high-yielding, disease-resistant new varieties for profitable production. It takes 7 to10 years of plant breeding to produce a new variety. Every year, the program works on all steps of the process, so that new varieties are launched periodically. Program objectives include development of high yielding varieties and breeding lines for the region, incorporation of plant resistance to soybean diseases or environmental stresses, development of herbicide-resistant varieties and breeding lines, development of value-added soybeans (e.g. higher protein and oil combinations), improving plant breeding methodologies, investigating genetic control of important traits and applying that knowledge to soybean improvement.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, extension agents, soybean breeders, seed companies

Information And Results
Final Project Results

During the past decade (2008-2017), approximately 233,590 acres were grown by farmers using UT AgResearch soybean varieties developed by our program. By estimating each year’s seed sales x that year’s yield x that year’s soybean commodity price, the impact of your investment in our new variety development efforts was >$95 million in revenue directly to producers.

Ag economists estimate that soybean commodity production results in about a 9-fold increase in revenue due to soybean barge and train shipment, silo and container storage, oil crushing and protein meal extraction plants and biodiesel processing plants. Thus the $95 million in revenue generated by seed sales and productive performance of our varieties translates to $855 million in realized economic impact for the past decade. Investment in Tennessee Soybean Breeding & Genetics brings strong returns on the dollar.

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.