Volume 17 (April 1990)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword .................................................................................................................................1

Soybean Genetics Committee Report ........................................................................................2

USDA Northern Soybean Germplasm Collection Report. R. L. Nelson and C. J. Coble..............6

USDA Southern Soybean Germplasm Collection Report. C.J. Edwards and E.E. Hartwig .........8

Soybean Germplasm Crop Advisory Committee Report ............................................................9

Soybean Germplasm Crop Advisory Committee By-Laws .......................................................13

        RESEARCH NOTES

        CANADA

        Linkage tests with Ll. R.I. Buzzell and B.D.Rennie ............................................................15

        Linkage assays. B.D. Rennie and J.W. Tanner ..................................................................17

        CHINA

        Genetic implication of soybean resistance to Cercospora soiina race 1. X. Zhang,
        Q. Yang, Y. Qi, T. Wu and J. Wang ................................................................................21

        Electrophoretic analysis of seed storage protein of wild soybean (G. soia) in China.
        B. Zhuang, B. Xu, Z. Xuw, M. Xu and N. Zhuang ...........................................................27

        Application studies in the field on screening of cold-tolerance in the
        laboratory in soybeans. Y. Li, R. Chang, Y. Zhao and J. Sun ...........................................32

        Study of the uses of aphid resistant character in wild soybean. I. Aphid-resistance
        performance of F2 generation from crosses between cultivated and wild soybeans.
        Z. Sun, P. Tian and J. Wang .............................................................................................43

        The effect of blend to imcrease soybean yield. Z. He and J. Zhang .....................................49

        Brief on soybean mutation breeding. B.S. Yu and P.Y. Wang ............................................51

        CHINA AND JAPAN

        A media system to enhance efficiency of plant regeneration in Glycine max.
        W. Lee, T. Komatsuda and S. Oka ...................................................................................55

        Comparison of embryogenesis efficiency on eight portions of immature embryos in
        Glycine gracilis, W. Lee, T. Kamatsuda, S. Oka ................................................................59

        HUNGARY

        Evaluation of soybean varieties using nearest neighbor analysis and the estimation of
        genetic improvement as a result of registration of new varieties. J. Lazanyi and H. Siroky ....63

        UNITED KINGDOM

        Somatic hybridization of Glycine species: The use of flow cytometry for isolation of
        heterokaryons. B. Jones, N.W. Blackhall, N. Hammatt and M.R. Davey ...........................69

        Acrylamide concentration affects the resolution of leucine aminopeptidase isoenzymes
        from callus of soybean and Glycine canescens. N. Hammatt and M.R. Davey ....................75

        UNITED STATES

        Origin of a new dwarf mutation. H. Skorupska and R.G. Palmer ........................................79

        Origin of the w4-m allele. H.D. Weigelt, R.G. Palmer and R.W. Groose .............................81

        Genetic analysis of the w4-mutable line. R.W. Groose and R.G. Palmer .............................84

        Genetics and linkage studies of a new chlorophyll-deficient mutant. R.G. Palmer ................92

        Linkage studies with an unknown trisomic that occurred spontaneously in ms1ms1
        soybean plants. F. Zhang and R.G. Palmer ........................................................................93

        Evaluation of specialty soybean germplasm for corn earworm resistance.
        H.W. Thompson, J.M. Joshi, R.B. Dadson and M. Nobakht ............................................96

        Screening specialty soybean cultivars for harvest index. R.B. Dadson,
        J.M. Joshi and M. Nobakht ............................................................................................100

        Multiple insect resistance in a soybean germplasm line. T.C. Kilen. ...................................103

        Re-examination of the recombination frequency between acid phosphatase and the
        Kunitz trypsin inhibitor loci in soybeans. H. Yu and Y.T. Kiang ........................................106

        Harvest index and related characteristics of small and large seeded soybean genotypes.
        H.L. Bhardwaj and A.S. Bhagsari ...................................................................................109

        Evaluation of vegetable soybean genotypes for nutritional and anti-nutritional factors.
        A. Mohamed, T. Mebrahtu and M. Rangappa..................................................................114

        Evaluation of vegetable soybean genotypes for phytate phosphorus and minerals.
        A.I. Mohamed, T. Mebrahtu, M. Rangappa and P.S. Benepai .........................................116

        Evaluation of vegetable soybean genotypes for fatty acid composition.
        T. Mebrahtu, A. Mohamed and M. Rangappa .................................................................119

        Genetic relationship among soybean lines resistant to Heterodera glycines races 3 and 5.
        A.P. Rao-Arelli and S.C. Anand ....................................................................................122

        Biosystematics of the genus Glycine, 1989. T. Hymowitz and R.J. Singh ..........................125

        Management of the USDA wild perennial Glycine collection, 1989.
        T. Hymowitz and J. A. Burridge ......................................................................................126

        Resistance to PhytoRhthora megasrerma f. sp. glycines in the soybean PI 437,833.
        D. J. Thomas and C. D. Nickell ......................................................................................128

        Further genetic analysis of the unstable r-m allele. J. M. Chandlee ....................................131

        Improvement of soybean for stress tolerance and biological efficiency.

            1. Screening soybean genotypes for drought and heat tolerance. V. T. Sapra and
                A. 0. Anaele ..........................................................................................................134

            2. 1988 and 1989 screening and selecting of vegetable soybean cultivars and
                germplasm for resistance to pests and diseases. R.P. Pacumbaba and V. T. Sapra ...139

            3. Seed transmission of soybean mosaic virus using mottled seeds from virus-infected
                soybean plants. R.P. Pacumbaba ............................................................................144

            4. Effect of Al on the growth and symbiotic development of soybean germplasm.
                McA. Floyd and S. Mookherji ...............................................................................146

            5. Responses of various soybean genotypes to excess soil manganese. M.R. Reddy ....150

INDEX OF AUTHORS........................................................................................................153

RECENT SOYBEAN GENETICS AND BREEDING PUBLICATIONS............................154

MAILING LIST...................................................................................................................162


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