Updated January 27, 2021:
Final Report
To achieve maximum profitability, the US producer is dependent upon the availability of locally adapted, competitively yielding soybean varieties that sustainably translate new developments into opportunities and prosperity throughout the soy value-chain. High oleic/low linolenic (HOLL) soybean varieties provide the food market with a high value, market-driven functional soybean oil with zero trans fats, and offer an innovative solution to recent labeling and ingredients rules set in motion by trans fats issues. This ongoing project conducted advanced soybean HOLL germplasm and variety development and research, built upon seven years of continuous investment by USB. In this phase of the project, we expanded the portfolio of high yielding HOLL soybean germplasm and varieties appropriate for different management systems and targeted to all US maturity groups. We closed the dedicated backcrossing program in Puerto Rico and salvaged the experimental soybean lines from that program. The result of this project is new profit opportunities for all US soybean producers with HOLL varieties.