ASTA Members Collaborate on Soybean Molecular Marker Paper

A scientific paper drafted by a team of ASTA members has been published in the Crop Science Journal. “Single nucleotide polymorphisms facilitate distinctness-uniformity-stability testing of soybean cultivars for plant variety protection” is open access and available for download on ASTA’s website.

Special thanks to the following representatives of ASTA member companies and universities who collaborated over five years to author the paper: Fred Achard, Marymar Butruille, Stevan Madjarac, and Paul Nelson from Bayer Crop Science; John Duesing, independent contractor from Iowa; J-L. Laffont, Barry Nelson and Jin Xioung from Corteva Agriscience; Mark A. Mikel, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois; and J.S. C. Smith, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University.

For more information, view ASTA’s press release.