Over the past year, a unique and potentially valuable highly embryogenic soybean line of Thorne has been isolated. Embryogenic cultures provide a suitable target tissue to produce transgenic and genome edited soybeans. This line grows 3-5x more rapidly that other lines and shows tremendous potential for improving transformation and genome editing efficiencies. For this research, this line will first be characterized by evaluation of growth under different conditions and then subjected to transformation and genome editing approaches to generate products of use to OSU collaborators. If these cultures show their indicated potential, this research will reduce or eliminate the current bottleneck for producing modified soybean lines.

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