2018
Enhancing canopy conductance to increase soybean yields and tolerance to multiple stresses in Minnesota
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
GeneticsGenomics
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Walid Sadok, University of Minnesota
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
10-15-40-18-152
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council
$51,798
Institution Funded:
University of Minnesota
$51,798
Brief Project Summary:

Increasing soybean yields is a vital to Minnesota growers. Despite major progress in breeding and genetics, there is currently a ‘phenotyping bottleneck’ to identifying novel traits that boost yields in short-season Minnesota environments. Recently, we have assembled evidence indicating that a novel trait, consisting of maximizing whole-plant canopy conductance, allows for increasing yield potential by maximizing CO2 and nutrients uptake by the plant. The Sadok lab developed a high-throughput, precision-phenotyping system which makes it possible to screen entire mapping populations for enhanced canopy conductance. Our goal for this project is to use this platform to identify major genes...

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

Updated May 28, 2020:

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