Page Banner  United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service   Location: Plant Genetics
Research  Project Number: 3622-21000-039-00 Project Type:
Appropriated  Start Date: Jul 23, 2013 End Date: Jul 22, 2018
Objective 1: Determine interactions of elemental profiles with
environment at the molecular level, and use this knowledge to
develop strategies to predict responses of soybeans to abiotic
stresses, and discover useful genes for improving soybean seed
quality traits. Sub-objective 1.1: Large scale ionomic profiling
to identify genetic loci and gene by environment interactions
controlling elemental accumulation and identify elemental
signatures of plant physiological responses to the environment.
Sub-objective 1.2: Comparative genetics and RNAi experiments to
identify and test genes in soybean. Objective 2: Use flux
analysis to improve understanding of carbon, energy and redox
partitioning in soybean tissues, and develop computational
methods that provide spatial or temporal descript