Abstract
The genetic base of soybean cultivars (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) has been narrowed through selective domestication and specific breeding improvement, similar to other crops. This presents challenges in breeding new cultivars with improved yield and quality, reduced adaptability to climate change, and increased susceptibility to diseases. On the other hand, the vast collection of soybean germplasms offers a potential source of genetic variations to address those challenges, but it has yet to be fully leveraged. In recent decades, rapidly improved high-throughput genotyping technologies have accelerated the harness of elite variations in soybean germplasm and provided the important information for solving the problem of a narrowed genetic base in breeding. In this review, we will overview the situation of maintenance and utilization of soybean germplasms, various solutions provided for different needs in terms of the number of molecular markers, and the omics-based high-throughput strategies that have been used or can be used to identify elite alleles. We will also provide an overall genetic information generated from soybean germplasms in yield, quality traits, and pest resistance for molecular breeding.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 37 |
| Journal | Molecular Breeding |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2023 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.
Keywords
- Core collection
- Elite allele
- Gene mapping
- Molecular breeding
- Omics
- Soybean germplasm
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biotechnology
- Molecular Biology
- Genetics
- Agronomy and Crop Science
- Plant Science
