Reproduction by Seed and Tissue Culture of Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) Growing in Turkey

Abstract

Human health is not achievable unless adequate amounts of nutritious and safe foods are available and accessible during all life stages. An estimated one-third of the world’s population, largely in the developing world, is currently food and nutrition insecure. The most obvious use of plant products in traditional biotechnology was for food. New and even better varieties were produced when early humans learned to cross-pollinate plants and became plant breeders. Soybean breeding has resulted in significant improvements in yield potential, stability of yield, adaptation of the species to mechanical harvest, and yield protection through improved disease resistance. Due to the nature of plant science agriculture, broadly defined as a manipulation of available plant resources to meet the needs of the growing human population, the environment in which plants are grown for agricultural production continuously offers new obstacles to agricultural production. The present invention provides a tissue culture of regenerable cells from a plant, or parts thereof, produced by growing seed and a soybean plant regenerated from the tissue culture. The present invention also provides a method for developing a soybean plant in a soybean breeding program using plant breeding techniques

Keywords

• Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.), Tissue Culture