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Title: INDUCTION OF HAIRY ROOTS WITH HIGH TRANSFORMATION EFFICIENCY ON SOYBEAN GENOTYPES AND PROPAGATION OF THE SOYBEAN CYST NEMATODE

Author
item CHO, HAN - UNIV OF ILLINOIS
item FARRAND, STEPHEN - UNIV OF ILLINOIS
item Noel, Gregory
item WIDHOLM, JACK - UNIV OF ILLINOIS

Submitted to: National Soybean Cyst Nematode Conference
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 1/7/1999
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Soybean (glycine max (L.) Merr.) is grown widely in the United States as a source of oil and high-protein meal. Annually, the soybean crop is valued at an estimated 11 billion dollars. Heterodara glycines Ichinohe, the soybean cyst nematode, occurs in Canada, the People' Republic of China, Colombia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Soviet Union, and thought the soybean production areas of the United States. This obligate root parasite is a major yield-limiting pest of soybean in the United States. The soybean cyst nematode can be propagated gnotobiotically on normal soybean root explants. However, this technique requires the continual establishment of root explants because these organs have a determinant period of growth in culture. Soybean hairy roots, which should exhibit indeterminate growth in tissue culture, could provide an alternative to normal root explants for monoxenic propagation and study of obligate soybean root parasites such as the soybean cyst nematode.