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Advances in Genetics and Breeding of Salt Tolerance in Soybean

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Salinity Responses and Tolerance in Plants, Volume 2

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Salt stress is one of the major abiotic factors affecting crop growth and production. In general, soybean is sensitive to salt stress. The success of soybean improvement for salt tolerance depends on discovery and utilization of genetic variation in the germplasm. In this chapter, advance in salt-tolerant research and breeding was summarized by highlighting the genetic diversity, quantitative trait loci (QTL), identification of the major locus (Glyma03g32900), and improvement of soybean varieties in salt tolerance. The ion exclusion and tissue tolerance mechanisms regulated by this major locus are discussed. In addition, genomic resources and high-throughput phenotyping platforms that can facilitate a better understanding of phenotype-genotype association and formulate genomic-assisted breeding strategies are prospected.

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Abbreviations

CAX:

Cation exchanger

GWAS:

Genome-wide association studies

MAS:

Marker-assisted selection

NGS:

Next-generation sequencing (NGS)

NHX:

Na+/H+ antiporter

QTL:

Quantitative trait loci

QTN:

Quantitative trait nucleotides

SNP:

Single nucleotide polymorphism

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This chapter is a joint contribution from the University of Missouri (MU), USA, and Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences (JAAS), China. We thank JAAS for Huatao Chen visiting scholarship at MU.

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    Huatao Chen, Heng Ye, Tuyen D. Do, Babu Valliyodan, Grover J. Shannon & Henry T. Nguyen

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Chen, H. et al. (2018). Advances in Genetics and Breeding of Salt Tolerance in Soybean. In: Kumar, V., Wani, S., Suprasanna, P., Tran, LS. (eds) Salinity Responses and Tolerance in Plants, Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90318-7_9

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