MnRI Seminar: Developing Phenotyping Solutions Towards Optimizing Soybean Shoot Architecture

Developing Phenotyping Solutions Towards Optimizing Soybean Shoot Architecture — Aaron Lorenz and Suma Sreekanta (UMN Deptartment of Agronomy and Plant Genetics)

Attaining a 50% increase in the yield of major crops by 2050 to feed the expected population ranks among one of our greatest societal challenges. It has been suggested that one promising way to break through this dilemma is to revolutionize the efficiency of crop light harvesting systems. Soybean, the second most widely grown crop in the U.S., is well known to be sub- optimal in its canopy structure, limiting its light interception efficiency. Despite this, very little is known about the soybean shoot architecture properties creating an optimal canopy structure for light interception.

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