2018
Field-testing ELP genes for effects on seed composition and yield ? year two
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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:
Susan Gibson, University of Minnesota
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
10-15-40-18-153
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council
$60,000
Institution Funded:
University of Minnesota
$60,000
Brief Project Summary:

To be able to breed new soybean varieties with improved seed composition and yield characteristics, more information regarding the genes that control these traits is needed. In previous research, six soybean ELP genes were identified as candidates to play a role in controlling seed composition or yield. To test this hypothesis, transgenic soybean lines designed to overexpress each of these ELP genes were generated. The next step in this project is to field test those transgenic lines to determine which lines reproducibly exhibit alterations in yield and/or seed composition. A preliminary field test during the summer of 2016 suggested that increasing expression of the ELP1 gene causes an...

Unique Keywords:
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Information And Results
Final Project Results

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