Location: Soybean and Nitrogen Fixation Research
Project Number: 6070-21220-070-046-A
Project Type: Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Oct 1, 2023
End Date: Feb 29, 2024
Objective:
1. Develop varieties and breeding lines with >48% meal protein and competitive yields with commercial check varieties.
2. Varieties and breeding lines with >12% wild soybean genome by pedigree, >48% meal protein and competitive yields with check varieties
3. Genes and markers for high protein and essential amino acids
Approach:
Conventional and marker assisted breeding, genomics approaches will be used to achieve this objective. NIR technology will be used to measure protein, oil and amino acids. The 6k SNP chips will be used to map the genes/QTLs for mapping the protein genes in cultivated soybean.
