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Title: Registration of ‘highpro1’ soybean with high protein and high yield developed from a North x South cross

Author
item Mian, Rouf
item MCHALE, LEAH - The Ohio State University
item LI, ZENGLU - University Of Georgia
item DORRANCE, ANNE - The Ohio State University

Submitted to: Journal of Plant Registrations
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/3/2016
Publication Date: 1/3/2017
Citation: Mian, R.M., Mchale, L.K., Li, Z., Dorrance, A.E. 2017. Registration of ‘highpro1’ soybean with high protein and high yield developed from a North x South cross. Journal of Plant Registrations. 10: 51-54..

Interpretive Summary: The majority (60-70%) of the value of the soybean crop comes from the soybean meal produced after extraction of the oil. The soybean meal is mainly used as the protein source for poultry and livestock. Development of high-yielding soybean lines with high-protein content is a target for many soybean breeders in USA. The major hurdle in increasing seed protein of soybean is its negative correlation with seed yield and oil concentration. Highpro1 is a MG-III conventional soybean cultivar with high seed protein, and is atypical of most previously released Midwestern high-protein cultivars in that the selection for increased seed protein content did not appear to result in a concomitant ‘yield drag’. Highpro1 is resistant to Southern root knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) and it has high level of partial resistance to Phytophthora root and stem rot caused by Phytophthora soaje. Highpro1 is a selection from a cross between a food grade soybean cultivar ‘Wyandot’ from The Ohio State University and a high-protein breeding line, GASF98-114, from University of Georgia Athens. Across 20 environments in the Northern Regional Soybean MG-III Quality Traits Tests, Highpro1 yielded (3746 kg ha-1) the same as the mean yield of four high yielding check cultivars in the tests while its protein content was much higher than the checks. On 13% moisture basis, Highpro1 produced 401 g kg-1 seed protein against the check cultivars’ averages of 344 g kg-1 seed protein. Across five environments of yield testing in Ohio, this line produced 4% higher seed yield and 45 g kg-1 higher seed protein content than the early maturing parental cultivar Wyandot. However, it is 7 d later in maturity with 18 g kg-1 lower seed oil content than Wyandot. In 2012 Ohio State Soybean Performance Trials, seed yields of Highpro1 were comparable to the yields of high-yield check cultivars of similar maturity and 10% higher than that of Wyandot.

Technical Abstract: ‘Highpro1’ soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]) (Reg. no. , PI ) was developed and jointly released by the USDA-Agricultural Research Service and The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) in Wooster, OH as a high-protein high-yielding maturity group (MG) III (relative maturity 3.7) conventional soybean cultivar. Highpro1 is a selection from a cross between a food grade soybean cultivar ‘Wyandot’ from The Ohio State University and a high-protein breeding line, GASF98-114, from University of Georgia Athens. Across 20 environments in the Northern Regional Soybean MG-III Quality Traits Tests, Highpro1 yielded (3746 kg ha-1) the same as the mean yield of four high yielding check cultivars in the tests while its protein content was much higher than the checks. On 13% moisture basis, Highpro1 produced 401 g kg-1 seed protein against the check cultivars’ averages of 344 g kg-1 seed protein. Across five environments of yield testing in Ohio, this line produced 4% higher seed yield and 45 g kg-1 higher seed protein content than the early maturing parental cultivar Wyandot. However, it is 7 d later in maturity with 18 g kg-1 lower seed oil content than Wyandot. In 2012 Ohio State Soybean Performance Trials, seed yields of Highpro1 were comparable to the yields of high-yield check cultivars of similar maturity and 10% higher than that of Wyandot. Thus, Highpro1 is a MG-III conventional soybean cultivar with high seed protein, and is atypical of most previously released Midwestern high-protein cultivars in that the selection for increased seed protein content did not appear to result in a concomitant ‘yield drag’. Highpro1 is resistant to Southern root knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) and it has high level of partial resistance to Phytophthora root and stem rot caused by Phytophthora soaje.