{"id":175686,"date":"2023-11-09T12:32:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-research-identifies-a-biotechnology-approach-to-improve-hybrid-breeding-of-soybean"},"modified":"2023-11-09T12:32:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:32:07","slug":"new-research-identifies-a-biotechnology-approach-to-improve-hybrid-breeding-of-soybean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-research-identifies-a-biotechnology-approach-to-improve-hybrid-breeding-of-soybean","title":{"rendered":"New research identifies a biotechnology approach to improve hybrid breeding of soybean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-identifies-a-biotechnology-approach-to-improve-hybrid-breeding-of-soybean2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soybean (Glycine max) is one of the most economically and societally impactful crops in the world, providing a significant percentage of all protein for animal consumption on a global scale, and playing key roles in oil production, manufacturing, and biofuel applications. In 2022, an estimated 4.3 billion bushels of soybeans were produced in the United States, a decrease of almost 200 million bushels compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up with the growing demand for soy-based animal feed, the USDA projects <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/soybean\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">soybean<\/a> acreage will increase by 19.6% by 2032. Hybrid breeding in soybean has the potential to increase the productivity of one of the most planted and consumed <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/crops\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">crops<\/a> in the Americas, yet it has remained largely unexplored.<\/p>\n<p>New research by scientists at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Cornell University provides a key enabling technology to produce obligate outcrossing in soybean. The newly published study, \u201cIntroduction of barnase\/barstar in soybean produces a rescuable male sterility system for hybrid breeding\u201d in the <i>Plant Biotechnology Journal<\/i>, has revealed that obligate outcrossing with the Barnase\/Barstar lines provides a new resource that can be used to amplify hybrid seed sets, enabling large-scale trials for heterosis in this major crop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soybean (Glycine max) is one of the most economically and societally impactful crops in the world, providing a significant percentage of all protein for animal consumption on a global scale, and playing key roles in oil production, manufacturing, and biofuel applications. In 2022, an estimated 4.3 billion bushels of soybeans were produced in the United [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}