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Document type
  • Peer-reviewed journal article
Study Type
  • yield
  • agronomy
GE organism
  • soybean
GE trait
  • herbicide tolerance
Country
  • USA

Results

Equivalence
  • negative effect

Glyphosate-resistant soybean cultivar yields compared with sister lines

Elmore, RW; Roeth, FW; Nelson, LA; Shapiro, CA; Klein, RN; Knezevic, SZ; Martin, A
Agronomy Journal. 2001 March. 93(2):408-412

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Abstract

Herbicide-resistant crops like glyphosate resistant (GR) soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] are gaining acceptance in U.S. cropping systems. Comparisons from cultivar performance trials suggest a yield suppression may exist with GR soybean. Yield suppressions may result from either cultivar genetic differentials, the GR gene/gene insertion process, or glyphosate. Grain yield of GR is probably not affected by glyphosate. Yield suppression due to the GR gene or its insertion process (GR effect) has not been reported. We conducted a field experiment at four Nebraska locations in 2 yr to evaluate the GR effect on soybean yield. Five backcross-derived pairs of GR and non-GR soybean sister lines were compared along with three high-yield, nonherbicide-resistant cultivars and five other herbicide-resistant cultivars. Glyphosate resistant sister lines yielded 5% (200 kg ha−1) less than the non-GR sisters (GR effect). Seed weight of the non-GR sisters was greater than that of the GR sisters (in 1999) and the non-GR sister lines were 20 mm shorter than the GR sisters. Other variables monitored were similar between the two cultivar groups. The high-yield, nonherbicide-resistant cultivars included for comparison yielded 5% more than the non-GR sisters and 10% more than the GR sisters.

Keywords

soybean; herbicide; yield; glyphosate

Funding

Funding source
  • Nebraska Soybean Board
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Funding country
  • United States
Funding type
  • NGO: same industry aligned
  • government

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MLA

Elmore, RW, FW Roeth, LA Nelson, CA Shapiro, RN Klein, SZ Knezevic, A Martin. "Glyphosate-resistant soybean cultivar yields compared with sister lines." Agronomy Journal 93.2 (2001): 408-412. Web. 29 Mar. 2024.

APA

Elmore, RW., Roeth, FW., Nelson, LA., Shapiro, CA., Klein, RN., Knezevic, SZ., & Martin, A. (2001). Glyphosate-resistant soybean cultivar yields compared with sister lines. Agronomy Journal, 93(2), 408-412.

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