Chromosomal and Genetic Aberrations in Transgenic Soybean

  • R. J. Singh
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Part of the Molecular Methods of Plant Analysis book series (MOLMETHPLANT, volume 22)

Abstract

The soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is an economically important leguminous crop for oil, feed, and soy food products. It contains about 40% protein and 20% oil in the seed. In the international trade markets, soybean is ranked number one in oil production (48%) among major oil seed crops (Singh and Hymowitz 1999). Despite its economic importance, the genetic base of soybean public cultivars is narrow (Delannay et al. 1983; Gizlice et al. 1993, 1994, 1996; Salado-Navarro et al. 1993; Sneller 1994; Cui et al. 2000). Soybean breeders have not yet exploited the wealth of genetic diversity from exotic germplasm, such as the soybean’s ancestor G. soja Sieb. and Zucc. or 18 wild perennial species of the subgenus Glycine Willd. Induced-mutation breeding in soybeans has been used to improve oil quality, tolerance for sulfonylurea herbicides, nitrate-tolerant symbiotic mutants, and to break the linkage between two closely linked genes (Singh and Hymowitz 1999).

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Somatic Embryo Plant Cell Tissue Organ Cult Transgenic Soybean Soybean Line Sulfonylurea Herbicide 
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