Wisconsin
Soybean News
Grower
Funded Research Focuses on Rust, plant health
Wisconsin soybean growers are funding 15 different research
projects totaling over $300,000 with University of Wisconsin
researchers during the 2006 calendar year.
Controlling Asian soybean rust continues to be a priority
for grower-focused funding, with
significant money allocated to projects that research the
impact and management of this foreign threat. Additional
funding will help tracking and identify rust and provide
timely public
notification should problems arise, through a rust detection
hotline and plant health website.
The web site is hosted by the UW-Madison department of plant
pathology at
www.plantpath.wisc.edu/soyhealth.
Finances for these and other plant health, variety improvement
and management research
projects are provided through the state soybean checkoff,
which is administered by the
Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board (WSMB), with oversight
provided by an elected board of
soybean producer members.
Other research projects funded for the coming year cover
general soybean plant health issues, soybean cyst nematode
problems, weed and crop management and variety improvement
research. Specific projects are as follows:
* Improved Alleles of Rhg4 for Soybean Cyst Nematode Resistance
Regional Soybean
Pest Management Field Days.
* Virulence Profiles of SCN Populations in WI.
* Addressing Weed Management Challenges in Wisconsin Soybean
Production Systems.
* Soybean Genes Required for Nodulation and Mycorrhization.
* Southeast Wisconsin Variant Western Corn Rootworm Trapping
Network.
*
Soybean Plant Health Website.
* Soybean Leaf Health and the Emerging Role of Soybean Rust.
* Soybean Rust Detection Hotline.
* Soybean Stem Health.
* Soybean Pathology Research.
* Responses of Soybean Genotypes to Soybean Aphids, Insecticides
and Viruses.
* Soybean Cyst Nematode Testing and Education.
* Specialty Soybean Production in Wisconsin.
* Wisconsin’s Soybean Grain Composition as Impacted
by Variety and Management.
The WSMB is dedicated to maximizing profitability of Wisconsin
soybean producers via
research, education and outreach initiatives. Working together
with the national United
Soybean Board, WSMB directs state soybean funds to statewide,
national and international
projects as part of the Soybean Promotion and Research Checkoff
program.
Additional information about the Wisconsin Soybean checkoff
and Wisconsin Soybean
programs is available online at http://www.wisoybean.org
or by calling the Soybean Program
office in Madison at 608-274-7522.
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