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Project code: 4-01-084


Soybean breeding for yield and quality


Main researcher: VRATARIĆ, MARIJA (53225)



Assistants
Type of research: basic
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 12/31/95.

Papers on project (total): 6
Institution name: Poljoprivredni institut, Osijek (73)
Department/Institute: Department for Genetics and Breeding of Industrial Plants
Address: Južno predgrađe 17
City: 31000 - Osijek, Croatia
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Phone: 385 (0)31 551-567
Fax: 385 (0)31 126-553

Summary: Soybean breeding for yield and quality has been done in acontinuos way at the Osijek Agricultural Institute for twentyyears now. The results of soybean breeding are obvious from 21soybean cultivars recognized, some of which have been grownwithin the largescale production. A collection of a large numberof cultivars from F1 to F8 generation was created byhybridization,giving 5000 to 8000 accessions a year. Applyinggenetic conceptions in a large measure, as well as breedingmethods, provided higher-yielding and top quality soybeancultivars with larger resistance to principal diseases andlodging, all of them belonging to the maturity groups 000 to II.These cultivars are used in common sowing practices primarily,including them as the second crop, too. The aim of soybeanbreeding is to improve domestic soybean production as well as tomake it more stable.

Keywords: soybean, breeding, hybridization, hybrid population, cultivar,genotype, gene, genetic variability, parent, combine ability,heritability, quantitative traits, progeny, heredity, resistanceof diseases, yield, quality

Research goals: The objective of soybean breeding in the first place is to createhigh-yielding (with genetic yield potential of over 6 t/ha) andhigh-quality cultivars of the 000 to II maturity group. Thesecultivars should be suitable for in-timeplanting, for plantingafter the optimum date and as the second crop, all with highresistance to principal diseases and lodging. To fulfil thisobjective it is necessary to work hard, i.e. to study all thetraits and the way of their inheriting. These traits play animportant role in achieving certain level of yield and quality.Secondly, it is also necessary to collect and create new sourcesof genetic variability, especially with genetic markers for acertain trait, such as the source of resistance to certaindiseases or to race within the same disease. Also, the primaryobjective is to create better commercial cultivars, which meansat the same time our contribution expected. In other words, byall these activities we tend to improve and increase soybeanproduction using new high-yielding and high-quality cultivars.In such a way, we shall make a contribution to the objectiveplaced. Increasing the genetic yield potential will be achievedin future by new sources of genetic variability and by laying alarger emphasis on other yield and quality traits and yieldcomponents.


COOPERATION - PROJECTS


  1. Name of project: > Ispitivanje i zastupanje sorata soje Poljoprivrednog instituta Osijek u Republici Mađarskoj
    Name of institution: ONTOZESI KUTATO INTEZET
    City: SZARVAS, MAĐARSKA


COOPERATION - INSTITUTIONS


  1. Name of institution: Poljoprivredni fakultet - Zavod za zaštitu bilja
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Joint publishing of scientific papers
    City: 31000 - Osijek, Croatia

  2. Name of institution: Agronomski fakultet - Zavod za specijalnu proizvodnju bilja, Zavod za genetiku
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Joint publishing of scientific papers
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  3. Name of institution: Institut za oplemenjivanje bilja
    Type of institution: State institute
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  4. Name of institution: Agricultural Research Service-USDA, Department of Agronomy and Department of Genetics, Iowa State University
    Type of institution: Economical/Production
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: Ames, Iowa, USA

  5. Name of institution: EUCARPIA - European Association for Research on Plant Breeding
    Type of institution: International organization
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of information
    City: Wageningen, Nizozemska

  6. Name of institution: FAO Research Network on Soybean, Institute of Plant Sciences ETH
    Type of institution: International organization
    Type of cooperation: Promotion or commercialization of results
    City: Lindau, Switzerland

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