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Research Project: Coordinated Analysis of Soybean Breeding Germplasm

Location: Bio-oils Research

Project Number: 5010-43000-009-000-D
Project Type: In-House Appropriated

Start Date: Apr 30, 2020
End Date: Apr 29, 2025

Objective:
Develop cutting edge analytical standards to provide a platform for essential activities to support soybean composition improvement in the U.S., including amino acids, fatty acids, protein, oil, and other important constituents.

Approach:
Using new wet chemical methods, improved near infrared calibrations will be performed and compared to calibrations by other NIR users. A wider range of soybean composition will be worked into the calibration. Soxhlet and nitrogen analyses will be performed on a large number of soybean samples and added to the current calibration.