Sjemenarstvo, Vol. 25 No. 3-4, 2008.
Review article
IMPORTANCE, ACHIEVEMENTS AND TRENDS IN SOYBEAN BREEDING AT THE AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OSIJEK
Aleksandra Sudarić
orcid.org/0000-0001-8451-8437
; Agricultural Institute Osijek
Marija Vratarić
; Agricultural Institute Osijek
Abstract
Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.), regarding to current area in the world (92 mil ha), on the global level is the main source of protein high nutritive value and important oil crop, respectively. In Croatia, soybean production has had a positive trend both in area and unitary yields, particularly in the few past years. Horizontal expansion of soybean as a crop and yield increase resulted from genetically improved cultivars, cultural practices advances and general management. Genetic improvement of soybean cultivars is the result of a lasting, expensive, intensive and continual breeding work. The contribution of soybean breeding program at the Agricultural Institute Osijek to the development, stability and improvement of soybean production in Croatia has been fundamental and very significant as it has permanently developed cultivars with high and stable grain yield and grain quality, high tolerance to main diseases and resistance to lodging and pod shattering as well as wide adaptability. The result of previous work on soybean breeding at the Institute is 36 registered cultivars within 00 to II maturity group, and two of them are registered abroad. Most of these cultivars were, or it is now, or will be introduced in wide production (at present, about 10 Institute’s cultivars cover more than 60% of total area under soybean in Croatia). Further genetic improvement of soybean will be based on the modern breeding strategies including combination of conventional breeding methods and recent chemical, biochemical, fitopathologicaly and molecular analyses. Each increase of soybean production, resulting from genetically improved cultivars, means considerable national economic profit.
Keywords
soybean; breeding; modern strategies; genetic improvement; cultivar
Hrčak ID:
34185
URI
Publication date:
19.1.2009.
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