Drought-Resistant Soybean Lines Soon Available

Avatar for Matt Hopkins By Andrea Klosterman Harris|6 November 2008

Carter has been working on transferring slow-wilting characteristics from Asian landraces for more than 25 years. As the team gets the slow-wilting trait into high-yielding lines, they share those new lines with industry breeders.

Researchers plan to develop drought-tolerant breeding lines across a range of maturity groups for adaptation to all US soybean-growing areas. The slow-wilting lines yield 4 to 8 bushels more than conventional varieties under drought conditions, depending on the region and environment.

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