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Researcher(s) |
Sam Blanch (NSW DPI) Nathan Ensbey (NSW DPI) Andrew James (CSIRO) Natalie Moore (NSW DPI) Stephen Morris (NSW DPI) |
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Year(s) | 2006 - 2009, 2014 - 2016 |
Contributor | Department of Primary Industries NSW |
Trial location(s) |
Grafton, NSW
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Further information | View external link |
The Australian Soybean Breeding Program develops varieties for diverse production environments across a 3000 km range from the Atherton Tablelands in far north Queensland (Latitude 17.2661°S, Longitude 145.4859°E) to the Riverina in southern New South Wales (Latitude 29.7503°S, Longitude 120.5530°E).
The program focuses on strategies to broaden the range of adaptation of new cultivars (James & Lawn, 2011), and to complete the transition from traditional dark hilum types that supply lower-value crushing markets to clear hilum types with the grain qualities required for human consumption markets. Advances in yield, disease resistance and other agronomic traits are also targeted.
Primarily, a single seed descent method is used to advance populations to the F4 level of inbreeding. Varieties from the Australian Soybean Breeding Program are not genetically modified (non-GMO). Regional evaluation and selection for environmental adaptation and specific regional traits is carried out across a wide range of environments in the target production regions. Typically, new soybean lines progress through stages of small-scale replicated evaluations for 6–8 seasons, with processors conducting small-scale grain evaluations. Advanced lines then complete evaluation in replicated on-farm experiments before commercial licensing and release.
This paper summarises data from multi-season replicated evaluations and on-farm experiments of RichmondA, a new variety for production in northern New South Wales
Conclusions:
The Australian soybean variety RichmondA produces large grain (22 g/100 seed) with a clear hilum and high levels of protein (42% dry matter), which is suitable for all markets including human consumption and export. The traditional variety, Asgrow A6785, has small grain (<16 g/100 seed) with a brown hilum and protein levels less than 40%, which limits the range of markets to which it is suited. The traditional variety, Soya 791, has average sized grain Agronomy(19 g/100 seed) with a light brown hilum and high levels of protein (42%). Both A6785 and Soya 791 are prone to excessive vegetative growth, especially at an early sowing date. However, this is not necessarily converted into grain yield as demonstrated in the on-farm experiment at Harwood.
RichmondA is superior to A6785 and Soya 791 in terms of grain yield, tolerance to lodging, tolerance to pre-harvest weathering and clean leaf drop. RichmondA offers a summer legume option with high yield and high grain quality for early, mid or late sowing windows in northern New South Wales. The variety’s performance was not adversely affected by the range of soil types and farming systems reported in this paper; it was superior to A6785 and Soya 791 in all situations. RichmondA is resistant to powdery mildew. This package of traits represents a significant advance in soybean varieties for the North Coast, Tablelands, Northern Slopes and Liverpool Plains production regions of northern New South Wales.
The results of the on-farm experiment of RichmondA versus Soya 791 in a wide spacing, single row system at Oakwood demonstrates the variety’s ability to compensate for wide rows and the associated lower plant populations in dryland systems. Row spacing and plant population interactions of new soybean and mungbean varieties are being investigated in the current NSW DPI–GRDC project DAN00171
Lead research organisation |
Department of Primary Industries NSW |
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Host research organisation | N/A |
Trial funding source | GRDC CSP00157 |
Related program |
Australian Soybean Breeding Program |
Acknowledgments |
The Australia soybean breeding program (CSP00157) is a joint investment by NSW DPI, CSIRO and GRDC. Technical assistance from Graeme Doust, Rodney Ellem, Craig Chapman and Kirran Ensbey is gratefully acknowledged. Assistance from Brad Schwark and Tim McMahon in conducting on-farm experiments is gratefully acknowledged. |
Other trial partners | CSIRO, GRDC |
Crop type | Oilseed: Soybean |
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Trial type | Experimental |
Trial design | Blocked |
Sow rate or Target density | 360,000 plants/ha |
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Sow date | Early season varieties between 2 and 5 December; late season varieties between 11 and 13 January |
Harvest date | The abovementioned sowing dates typically resulted in the harvest of early-sown variety experiments |
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Herbicide |
Weed management typically included a post-plant pre-emergent application of glyphosate at a rate of 1 L/ha with Dual Gold (960 g/L S-metolachlor) at 1 L/ha. Spinnaker 700 WDG (700 g/kg imazethapyr) was applied 2–3 weeks after emergence at 100 g/ha. Verdict 520 (520 g/L haloxyfop present as the haloxyfop-R methyl ester) was only applied at 150 mL/ha if required before canopy closure. |
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Bug checking was conducted at regular intervals and an integrated pest management approach followed to conserve as many beneficial insects as possible. The following insecticides were used if required (note that not all insecticides were applied to all experiments in all seasons):
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Fungicide |
If required, Folicur 430SC (430 g/L tebuconazol) was applied at 245 mL/ha to manage soybean leaf rust. |
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# | Variety |
Protein (%) | Lodging (0-9) | Days to maturity (GS90) (no. of days) | Seed number per kg (seeds/kg) | Grain yield (t/ha) | Plant height (cm) | Weathering tolerance (% unweathered grain) | Seed size ((g/100 seeds @ 12% moisture)) |
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1 | █ Richmond | 42.3 | 1.5 | 131 | 4532 | 4.6 | 85 | 73.7 | 22.1 |
2 | █ Moonbi | 42.6 | 1.6 | 121 | 4580 | 4.1 | 91 | 72.5 | 21.8 |
3 | █ Zeus | - | - | - | - | - | - | 84.1 | - |
4 | █ Soya | 5.32 | 2.9 | 139 | 5217 | 4.3 | 99 | 53.2 | 19.2 |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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