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New online database for soybean studies

Access to soybean genome research all across the world is now available through the University of Missouri’s Soybean Knowledge Base “SoyKB.”

The free online data resource allows farmers, scientists and researchers to gain access to experiments and data from researchers worldwide.

M-U assistant computer science research professor Trupti Joshi tells Brownfield Ag News a high capacity computer system analyzes the data.

“The ultimate goal is to be able to select the lines to cross if you want to have better yield production or better resistance to soybean cyst nematode and things like that,” says Joshi

SoyKB is part of the University of Missouri‘s Food for the Future Initiative.  She tells Brownfield, “We have to think of faster, better, efficient ways of improving the food quality and also the food production – and the informatics resources and this collaboration between computer science and plant scientists is extremely crucial for us to be able to do that.”

Researchers are able to deposit their results into the SoyKB database which can be accessed by anyone online at soykb.org

Interview with Trupti Joshi (11:00 mp3)

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