Location: Plant Genetics Research
Project Number: 5070-21000-043-018-R
Project Type: Reimbursable Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Oct 1, 2019
End Date: Mar 31, 2022
Objective:
1. Discover soybean QTL genes and gene candidates regulating oil content:
2. Discover new beneficial alleles and soybean accessions using an in-silico genotyping pipeline
3: Develop a collection of functional/perfect DNA markers for molecular marker assistant selection
Approach:
A big-data driven trait QTL gene discovery platform and an in-silico genotyping pipeline developed by ARS will be applied to discover genes regulating oil content and develop a collection of functional markers to facilitate developing high-oil germplasm/cultivars through molecular breeding and genome editing approaches.
