Glycine max Random survey

Soybean production in Canada has increased dramatically over the last 10 years, including record acreage planted in Manitoba in 2014. Like all economically important crops, soybean is host to an abundance of 'foliar disease causing' microbial pathogens that can result in serious yield losses. In 2016 we used next generation sequencing to carry out the most comprehensive survey of foliar diseases in Manitoba soybean. A total of 81 fieldsdistributed throughout the Manitoba soybean growing region were surveyed in late June (V2/3)and/or in late August (V6) (Figure 1). In each field, samples were collected from any plantexhibiting different foliar symptoms, resulting in nearly 700 leaf collections.