ISRC Affiliates Involved in Five NCSRP-funded Projects
The North Central Soybean Research Program (NCSRP) approved $2,781,886 in funding for continued research in fiscal year 2025 to support six university-based projects. Iowa State researchers are involved in five of those projects, as listed below.
Madan Bhattacharyya, agronomy, will serve as a co-principal investigator (co-PI) on a project led by Jianxin Ma, Purdue University, titled “SoyRenSeq: a Novel Approach for Disease Resistance Gene Discovery and Application for Soybean Improvement.”
Erin Hodgson, plant pathology, entomology and microbiology, will serve as a co-PI on a project led by Justin McMechan, University of Nebraska, titled “Management Tactics and Tools for Insect Pests in the North Central Region.”
Daren Mueller, plant pathology, entomology and microbiology, will serve as a co-PI on a project led by Richard Webster, North Dakota State University, titled “Advancing Soybean Health: Field Trials to Decision Support Tools to Maximize Disease Management.”
Asheesh Singh, agronomy will serve as a co-PI on a project led by Aaron Lorenz, University of Minnesota titled “SOYGEN3: Building Capacity to Increase Soybean Genetic Gain for Yield Through Combining Genomics-assisted Breeding with Characterization of Future Environments.”
Greg Tylka, plant pathology, entomology and microbiology, will serve as a co-PI on a project led by Dylan Mangel, University of Nebraska, titled “The SCN Coalition: A Checkoff-led, University-driven, Industry-Supported Partnership Battling Soybean's Biggest Underground Threat.”
More information about these projects can be found on the National Soybean Checkoff Research Database, which also provides information about project researchers, objectives, progress reports and final results including explanations of how farmers will benefit from the work.