Monsanto Technology LLC

Dekalb Genetics Corporation

Richard Johnson

Kunsheng Wu

David V Butruille

Sam R Eathington

Jason Kendrick Bull

Anju Gupta

Marlin Edwards

Wayne M Kennard

Jennifer Rinehart

Barry S Goldman

Balasulojini Karunanandaa

Thomas Gene Ruff

John R LeDeaux

Virginia Ursin

Robert J Meister

Deborah J Hawkins

Mark Scott Abad

Jeffrey E Ahrens

Jingrui Wu

Beth Savidge

Paolo Castiglioni

Karen Gabbert

Paul J Loida

Wei Zheng

Todd DeZwaan

Donald E Nelson

Michael D Edgerton

Richard Eric Cerny

Molian Deng

Jill Deikman

Stephen M Duff

Paul McLaird

Marie E Petracek

Zhidong Xie

Steve Sichuan He

Steven H Schwartz

Erin Bell

Jaishree M Chittoor-Vijayanath

Jindong Sun

Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra

Monica P Ravanello

Xianfeng Chen

Obed Patty

Robert J Bensen

Savitha Madappa

Bradon James Fabbri

Garrett J Lee

Maureen Daley

Jason Fenner

Kammaradi R Vidya

Ming Peng

Srikanth Babu Venkatachalayya

Alice Clara Augustine

Shobha Char

Anand Pandravada

Rajani Monnanda Somaiah

Rick A Sanders

Padmini Sudarshana

Rebecca L Thompson-Mize

Dale L Vai

Tymagondlu V Venkatesh

K Vijayalakshmi

Todd C Weber

This invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, transgenic plant nuclei and cells with such recombinant DNA construct for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.

Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits

The present invention provides breeding methods and compositions to enhance the germplasm of a plant. The methods describe the identification and accumulation of transgenes and favorable haplotype genomic regions in the germplasm of a breeding population of crop plants.

Methods and compositions to enhance plant breeding

Polymorphic soybean DNA loci useful for genotyping between at least two varieties of soybean. Sequences of the loci are useful for providing the basis for designing primers and probe oligonucleotides for detecting polymorphisms in soybean DNA. Polymorphisms are useful for genotyping applications in soybean. The polymorphic markers are useful to establish marker/trait associations, e.g. in linkage disequilibrium mapping and association studies, positional cloning and transgenic applications, marker-aided breeding and marker-assisted selection, hybrid prediction and identity by descent studies. The polymorphic markers are also useful in mapping libraries of DNA clones, e.g. for soybean QTLs and genes linked to polymorphisms.

Soybean polymorphisms and methods of genotyping

This invention relates to a method for improving the efficacy of a plant breeding program which has as its goal to selectively alter phenotypic traits that are capable of being described numerically and are under the control of quantitative trait loci (QTLs). The method combines the newer techniques of molecular biology with modifications of classical pedigree breeding strategies. Progeny performance is predicted on the basis of at least one secondary trait, facilitating selection strategies. In particular, regression estimates are obtained by determining the relationship between selected inherited marker loci and quantitative phenotypic trait values in predictor populations, and used in combination with inherited marker profiles of plants, to implement a selection strategy in related populations.

Process predicting the value of a phenotypic trait in a plant breeding

Process for predicting the phenotypic trait of yield in maize

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