Gunvant Patil, Juhi Chaudhary, Tri D Vuong, Brian Jenkins, Dan Qiu, Suhas Kadam, Grover J Shannon, Henry T Nguyen
Seed composition is one of the most important determinants of the economic values in soybean. The quality and quantity of different seed components, such as oil, protein, and carbohydrates, are crucial ingredients in food, feed, and numerous industrial products. Soybean researchers have successfully developed and utilized a diverse set of molecular markers for seed trait improvement in soybean breeding programs. It is imperative to design and develop molecular assays that are accurate, robust, high-throughput, cost-effective, and available on a common genotyping platform...
2017: International Journal of Plant Genomics