Agron 600A - Plant Breeding Seminars
| Date/Time: | Thursday, 07 Apr 2011 from 4:10 pm to 5:10 pm |
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| Location: | 2026 Agronomy Hall |
| Cost: | Free |
| URL: | http://www.agron.iastate.edu |
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| Phone: | 515-294-1360 |
| Channel: | Agronomy Department |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Previous efforts to obtain low-phytate soybean lines with low-saturate oil has resulted in lines with a saturates concentration too high for commercial use. The study was to determine whether additional generations of breeding were successful in overcoming the negative association between low-phytate and low-saturates. His results indicate that the low-phytate trait has a pleiotropic effect on saturate synthesis. This pleiotropic effect will make it difficult for soybean breeders to recover low-phytate lines with a saturate concentration low enough for commercial use.