2021
Breeding new and improved soybean cultivars with high yield and disease resistance
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
GeneticsGenomics
Parent Project:
Breeding new and improved soybean cultivars with high yield and disease resistance
Lead Principal Investigator:
Leandro Mozzoni, University of Arkansas
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board
$195,000
Institution Funded:
University of Arkansas
$195,000
Brief Project Summary:
Changes in agronomic practices or challenges should prompt adjustments in breeding. Understanding how to grow a crop improves the ability to breed improved varieties. That philosophy undergirds the University of Arkansas soybean breeding program, which develops high-yielding soybean varieties adapted to environments and challenges in the state. The program is working on a wide variety of soybean genetics, but that they adapt as needed to key challenges. Breeding is a tool that helps farmers continuously improve as agronomic factors change. For example, shifts in weather patterns could lead to changes in disease pressure. Changing crop rotations impact soil pests and nutrient availability. Herbicide resistance in weeds influences genetic technology systems.
Key Beneficiaries:
#farmers, #seed companies, #soybean breeders
Unique Keywords:
#breeding, #breeding & genetics, #root-knot nematode
Information And Results
Project Summary

Develop high-yielding MG 4-5 cultivars adapted to various environments and production systems in Arkansas.

Project Objectives

Develop high-yielding MG 4-5 cultivars (conventional and glyphosate tolerant) adapted to various environments and production systems in Arkansas. Develop new varieties and germplasm with resistance to soybean cyst nematode (SCN), root knot nematode (RKN), sudden death syndrome (SDS), stem canker (SC) or frogeye leaf spot (FLS).

Project Deliverables

Progress Of Work

Final Project Results

Benefit To Soybean Farmers

The UA breeding program provides high-yielding cultivars with low costs to growers and seeds for the conventional and
GT (RR1) cultivars can be saved and re-used for planting. UA soybean releases have also served as crossing materials for public and private breeding programs.

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.