The following information is a Web Extra from the pages of Farm Journal. It corresponds with the article “Traits Get Tricky” by Pam Smith. You can find the article on page 43 in the November 2010 issue.
John Soper, Pioneer Vice President of Soybean Research, estimates that 90% or more of the SCN varieties on the market today contain PI-88788 type of resistance. “We’ve been doing work in recent years, particularly in the early Group I, Group II and Group III [maturity ranges], with a different source of resistance called Peking that previously hasn’t been deployed much.”
