2009
Non-host resistance for engineering disease resistance in soybean
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Iowa Soybean Association
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
GeneticsGenomics
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Madan Bhattacharyya, Iowa State University
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Iowa Soybean Association
(n/a)
Institution Funded:
Iowa State University
(n/a)
Brief Project Summary:

Genetic engineering of soybean with novel, stable and broad-spectrum resistance is becoming crucial for protecting soybean from its pathogens. Current knowledge and genetic resources, however, are largely inadequate for creating such novel soybean germplasm.

Nonhost resistance mechanism makes soybean completely immune to corn or wheat pathogens. Similarly, nonhost resistance mechanism makes the model plant, Arabidopsis, immune to all soybean pathogens. Therefore, identification and transfer of the nonhost resistance mechanism from Arabidopsis to soybean is expected to create broad-spectrum resistance against most soybean pathogens.

In this study, we plan to first mutate the...

Unique Keywords:
#breeding & genetics
Information And Results
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