volume21

Volume 21 (May 1994)

Table of Contents

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

Fifth Biennial Conference in Georgia ........................................................................................2

Soybean Genetics Committee Report .......................................................................................3

USDA Soybean Germplasm Collection Report........................................................................ 9

RESEARCH NOTES

CHINA

Polymorphism and geographical distribution of fat content of wild soybean

G. soja in China. Zhuang Bingchang, Xu Hang, Wang Yumin, Li Fushan,

and Xu Bao..................................................................................................................13

Study on genotypic variation of tofu yield, quality and processing traits of soybean

landraces. Junyi Gai, Junpei Jin and Zhangli Cui....................................................... 17

Correlation analysis regarding tofu yield, quality and processing traits of soybean

landraces. Junyi Gai, Junpei Jin and Zhong Gao.........................................................20

Study on genotypic variation of components of storage protein of soybean

landraces. Junyi Gai, Junpei Jin and Xiaobo Zhang.................................................... 24

Study on the techniques of usage of wild soybean in soybean breeding. Yang

Guangyu, Zhen Huiyu, Han Chuen Fe, Ji Feng and Hu Jinhai ...................................27

Variations in seed protein content and 100-seed weight among different portions

of soybean plants. Zhang Guodong ............................................................................32

Evaluation and utilization of genetic potential of semicultivated soybeans.

Yang Qi and Wang Jinling ...........................................................................................35

Study on the performance of different types of soybean under different fertility

level conditions. Yang Qi and Wang Jinling ................................................................44

Combining ability analysis for three different types of soybean and their progenies.

Yang Qi and Wang Jinling ...........................................................................................51

Identification of soybean genotypes in Southern China for symbiotic characters.

Xu Oiaozhen, Zhang Xuejiang, Jiang Mulan and Li Zhiyu ........................................59

Genotype by environment interactions of tofu processing traits in soybean.

Zhou Xinan and Zhu Jiancha..................................................................................... 64

TAIWAN, CHINA

Polymorphic distinction of soybean by molecular markers. Long-Fang 0. Chen,

Wen-Chu Yuri, Hsiao-Yin Kuo and Mei-Hwei Chen ................................................70

Differential amplification between root and leaf DNAs in soybean by RAPD markers.

L.F.O. Chen, H.E. Kuo, S.F. Yang and S.C.G. Chen................................................. 76

CHINA AND JAPAN

Development of hybrids with higher susceptibility to Agrobacterium tumefaciens

A208 and inheritance of the susceptibility on soybeans. Lee Wenbin and

T. Komatsuda ............................................................................................................82

Binary vector mediated transformation of soybean. L. Wenbin and T. Komatsuda ...............87

CZECH REPUBLIC

Screening of enzyme systems. M. Kadlec, J. Stejskal, J. Letal, M. Griga and J. Golias..........92

INDIA

Pod-wall thickness as a selection criterion for shattering resistance in soybean.

V.S. Bhatia and S.P. Tiwari ..........................................................................................98

Genotypic compatibility for yield in variety blends of soybean. P.S. Bhatnagar,

P.G. Karmakar, Prabhakar and Vipin Kumar .............................................................101

Seed-filling duration and height of insertion of the lowest pod in Indian soybean

varieties. P.G. Karmakar, S.P. Tiwari and Vipin Kumar ...........................................104

Effects of -different doses of gamma irradiation on germination and survival of

soybean. S.S. Mehetre, C.R. Mahajan, P.M. Dhumal ...............................................108

Induced genetic variability in the M2 and M3 generations of soybean.

S.S. Mehetre, C.R. Mahajan, P.M. Dhumal and D.N. Hajare ...................................113

Evaluation of induced mutants of soybean for stem fly resistance and yield.

Amar N. Sharma, P.S. Bhatnagar and R.N. Singh.......................................................121

Quantifying girdle beetle resistance in soybean. Amar N. Sharma .........................................124

Evaluation of soybean genotypes for seed storability. Gurmit Singh, S.S. Gill, and

T.P. Singh....................................................................................................................128

Flowering behavior of soybean genotypes. T.P. Singh, P.S. Madan, P.S. Phul, and

T.R.Ghai .....................................................................................................................130

Transgressive segregants with four-seeded pods in soybean. S.P. Tiwari,and

P.S. Bhatnagar .............................................................................................................135

Screening of soybean germplasm for photoperiodic insensitivity under natural

conditions in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India. V.D. Verma,

and B.V. Sawaji ...........................................................................................................137

POLAND

Variation of morphologic characteristics of soybean genotypes. Grzegorz

Konieczny, Adam Muszynski and Jerzy Nawracala .................................................142

Variation of seed yield components of soybean genotypes. G. Knoieczny,

A.Muszynski and J. Nawracala ..................................................................................146

Heritability, discrimination power, year to year variation of some characteristics

and main component configuration of soybean genotypes. G. Konieczny,

A. Muszynski, and J. Nawracala ................................................................................149

Breeding evaluation of G. max X G.soia crosses. J. Nawracala and G. Konieczny..................153

SWITZERLAND

Description of two flowering types and F2 segregation in relation to pubescence color.

Arnold Schori and Thomas Gass................................................................................ 156

UNITED STATES

Genome conservation between Glycine and legume relatives detected with DNA

markers. S. Boutin, T. Olson, Z.H. Yu, N. Young, R. Shoemaker, E. Vallejos............161

Screening the USDA germplasm collection for malate dehydrogenase variants.

T. Couch and R.G. Palmer ..........................................................................................165

Relative performance of soybean cultivars, ancestral cultivars and plant

introductions. P.B. Cregan, J.0. Yocum, J.R. Justin, C.R. Buss, W.J.

Kenworthy, E.L. Wisk and H.M. Camper, Jr. ...........................................................168

Tests for genetic linkage of the Fr2, Pc and I loci in soybean. T.E. Devine ............................184

Inheritance of brown stem rot resistance in PI 437685D. S.R. Eathington and

C.D. Nidkell ...............................................................................................................187

Progress report on the construction of a yeast artificial chromosome library of

soybean. R.P. Funke, A. Kolchinsky, P.M. Gresshoff .............................................192

An abundant mitochondrial DNA species from Glycine latifolia. Elizabeth A.

Grabau and William H. Davis.................................................................................... 195

Hypothetical mechanism for chlorophyll abnormalities in mutant soybean

[Glycine max (L.) Merr.] lines. Aaron M. Elmer, Carrie A. Barton, and

James E. Bidlack ........................................................................................................199

Identification of a Glycine soia line low in total raff inose. T.M. Kuo and

T.C. Kilen ..................................................................................................................204

Implications of a nuclear inherited chlorophyll retention mutant (di dl d2dg) on

conditional lethality in soybean, [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]. V. Christine Minor

and R. G Palmer .........................................................................................................207

Recombinant inbred line population from the cross Minsoy x Noir 1. J.H. Orf, L.M.

Mansur and K.G. Lark ...............................................................................................210

DNA fingerprinting of soybean accessions with resistance to soybean cyst

nematode. A.P. Rao-Arelli, G.O. Myers and D.M. Webb ........................................212

Development of near-isogenic lines for root fluorescence. R.G. Palmer .................................219

Aneuploids from a male-sterile mutant from tissue culture. R.G. Palmer and H.T.

Skorupska: .................................................................................................................228

Physical mapping of polymorphisms linked to the Phytophthora sola resistance

locus Rpsl. Kayla M. Polzin and Randy Shoemaker .................................................231

Cytological standards for the wild perennial Glycine, 1993. R.J. Singh and T.

Hymowitz ..................................................................................................................236

Biosystematics of the genus Glycine , 1993. R.J. Singh and T. Hymowftz ...........................237

Management of the USDA wild perennial Glycine collection, 1993. J.A. Burridge

and T. Hymowtiz ......................................................................................................238

Root fluorescence in the Genus Glycine subgenus Glycine: Revisited.Charletta

Little and Theodore Hymowitz .................................................................................242

Soybean DNA isolation procedure using fresh tissue. C. Neal Stewart, Jr ............................243

Molecular phylogeny as a tool for soybean breeding Ill. L.I. Terry, K.G. Lark, L.

Allphin, M. Stevens, A.J. Angilau, M. Gay, L. Harrison, B. Huff, P. Magasich,

M. Miller, 6. Nishimoto, C. Rhead, Q. Sahratian, J. Whitehead and J.A.

Whitehead ...................................................................................................................245

A third allele at the dtl locus. J.A. Thompson, R.L. Bernard and R.L. Nelson .......................257

Photomorphogenic influence of light quality on expression of the long-juvenile trait

in soybean. Jeff P. Tomkins, Emerson R. Shipe and Susan U. Wallace......................261

lnluence of light quality on photomorphogenic responses of delayed flowering soybean

genotypes. Jeff P. Tomkins, Emerson R. Shipe and Susan U. Wallace .....................266

An estimation of the physical distance between co-segregating RFLP markers in the

soybean genome. Duan Xiaozhu, Randy Shoemaker and Alan Atherly ....................270

UNITED STATES AND EGYPT

Salt tolerance of soybean in solution culture experiments 1. Evaluation of screening

technique. A.S. Ragab, V.R. Pantalone III, W.J. Kenworthy and B.R. James ...........274

Salt tolerance of soybean in solution culture experiments 11. Reaction of 19 genotypes.

A.S. Ragab, V.R. Pantalone 111, W.J. Kenworthy and B.R. James ..........................277

UNITED STATES AND MEXICO

Arbitrary mini-hairpin oligonucleotide primers: a tool for analysis of genomes,

cloned DNA and PCR amplified fragments. Gustavo Caetano-Anolles and

Peter M. Gresshoff ....................................................................................................280

Isolation and cloning of AFLPs generated by tec-MAAP and tightly linked to the nts locus

in soybean. Jaime E. Padilla, Gustavo Caetano-Anolles and Peter M. Gresshoff......285

Index of authors ....................................................................................................................289

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