Plant breeder boosts soybean diversity, develops soybean rust-resistant plant
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 11:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It took decades of painstaking work, but research geneticist Ram Singh managed to cross a popular soybean variety ("Dwight" Glycine max) with a related wild perennial plant that grows like a weed in Australia, producing the first fertile soybean plants that are resistant to soybean rust, soybean cyst nematode and other pathogens of soy.