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Drought tolerance in soybean: genetics, metabolomics, remote sensing, and breeding for enhanced drought tolerance
Nathaniel Burner1, Donna K Harris2, Clement Kwarteng Nyam2
1Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, and Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States.
Abstract:
Drought is the most damaging abiotic stress affecting soybean production, with variable rainfall contributing significantly to year-to-year yield variability. Breeding efforts aim to develop cultivars with stable and competitive yields under both drought and non-drought stressed conditions. However, drought tolerance in soybean is a highly complex trait, influenced by diverse physiological, morphological, genetic factors and environments. Identifying genotypes with improved drought tolerance is challenging because traditional phenotyping methods for drought tolerance are subjective and time-consuming. Furthermore, quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with drought tolerance typically exhibit small effects and limited consistency across environments and populations. These challenges highlight the need for improved methodologies to identify and evaluate promising sources of genetic variation. This review summarizes the current state of drought tolerance breeding in soybean and discusses recent advances in remote sensing, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics aimed at enhancing drought tolerance research and cultivar development in soybean.
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