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Soybean genome at the Kearney Hub

Nationwide, soybean production in 2009 totaled 3.36 billion bushels, up 1 percent from the Nov. 1 forecast and up 13 percent from 2008. U.S. production is the largest on record. The average yield per acre is estimated at a record-high 44 bushels, 0.7 bushel above the Nov. 1 forecast and 4.3 bushels above 2008’s yield…. [Read More]

Soybean genome on Delta Farm Press

This sequencing of the soy genome is the culmination of more than 15 years of collaborative research. The team used a so-called “whole-genome shotgun” (WGS) approach to sequence 85 percent of the 1.1 billion nucleotide base pairs that spell out soy’s entire DNA code. The sequence also provides researchers with a critical reference to use… [Read More]

Soybean genome in Meat Trade News Daily

The study was authored by Jeremy Schmutz of the Joint Genome Institute and the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center, the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Purdue University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and 43 other researchers from 18 institutions. The Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, USDA and United Soybean Board… [Read More]

Soybean genome on Iowa Farmer Today

“Soybean and other legumes play a critical role in global food security and human health and are used in a wide range of products, from tofu, soy flour, meat substitutes and soy milk to soy oil-based printing ink and biodiesel,” Molly Jahn, USDA deputy under secretary for research, education and economics, said in a news… [Read More]

Soybean genome work on DailyKos

Publication of the soybean genome opens the door to major crop improvements. While biodiesel from soybean oil represents a cleaner, renewable alternative to fossil fuels with desirable properties as a liquid transportation fuel, there simply is not enough oil produced by the plant to be a competitive gasoline on a gallons-of-fuel yield per acre. The… [Read More]

Soybean genome in North Queensland Register

This sequencing of the soy genome is the culmination of more than 15 years of collaborative research. The team used a whole-genome shotgun approach to sequence 85 per cent of the 1.1 billion nucleotide base pairs that spell out the soybean’s entire DNA code. Read more at the North Queensland Register. [Read More]

Soybean genome in TopNews.in

The complete genome of soybean, which is the world’s most important economic crop, has successfully been sequenced by American scientists, revealing some very surprising findings and opening up the potential to come up with improved strains. Read the rest of the article at TopNews. [Read More]

Soybean genome work in Queensland Country Life

Having the genome in hand will allow scientists to compare different varieties of soybean plants and determine which genes are responsible for different characteristics, such as increased oil content or larger plants. One of the next steps in the research is to resequence the 20,000 soybean lines in the US germplasm collection to find genes… [Read More]

Jeremy Schmutz on soybean sequence in The Huntsville Times (AL)

A local researcher’s quest to “build a better soybean” has landed him in the most recent issue of the science journal Nature, published today. Jeremy Schmutz, a faculty investigator at the HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology in Huntsville, is the lead author on a study involving the soybean’s genetic makeup. “This is really exciting,” he said…. [Read More]

Soybean sequence on Australian Life Scientist

Soybean also appears to have a highly duplicated genome, with around three quarters of the genes copied in multiple locations. This is the result of genome duplications that took place approximately 59 and 13 million years ago, after which the genome underwent gene diversification and loss and numerous chromosome rearrangements. The genome was sequenced using… [Read More]