Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) articles

Methods for predicting response to selection in noninbred populations for individuals and family-based selection methods have been very well developed. However, theory to predict improvement of inbred lines derived from a recombined population, as well the predicted change in inbreeding depression rate, has not been developed. Prediction equations for general levels of inbreeding in both selection candidates and recombined offspring of selected parents for intrapopulation selection methods were

Climate models predict greater increases in nighttime temperature in the future. The impacts of high nighttime temperature on wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) are not well understood. Objectives of this research were to quantify the impact of high nighttime temperatures during reproductive development on phenology, physiological, vegetative, and yield traits of wheat. Two spring wheat cultivars (Pavon-76 and Seri-82) were grown at optimum temperatures (day/night, 24/14°C; 16/8 h light/dark photoper

The wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)-Aegilops geniculata introgression T5DL·5DS-5MgS(0.95), with stripe rust resistance gene Yr40 and leaf rust resistance gene Lr57, is an effective source of resistance against most isolates of the rust pathogen in Kansas and India. Rust resistance genes Lr57 and Yr40 were transferred to the hard red winter wheat (HRWW) cultivars Jagger and Overley by standard backcrossing and marker-assisted selection (MAS). PCR-based cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS)

This study was undertaken to investigate whether chitosan treatments of sprouts of three soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] cultivars (OAC Champion, AC Orford, and AC Proteina) can increase not only concentration of isoflavones in sprouts but also the transcript levels of genes and their subfamilies encoding enzymes at key points of the phenylpropanoid pathway (phenylalanine ammonia-lyase [E.C. 4.3.1.5], chalcone synthase [E.C. 2.3.1.74], chalcone isomerase [E.C. 5.5.1.6], and chalcone reductase [

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most common sequence difference found in plant genomes, yet they have not been widely exploited for producing molecular markers in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). The objective of this study was to develop a SNP assay based on a type of heteroduplex mismatch cleavage called EcoTILLING for molecular marker development in this important legume, and apply the assay (i) to the conversion of a sequence-characterized amplified region (SCAR) marker us