Inheritance and molecular mapping of seed traits in soybean

Seed size and shape are important traits determining yield and quality insoybean. Seed size and shape are also desirable for specialty soy foods liketofu, natto, miso, and edamame. In order to find stable quantitative trait loci(QTLs) and candidate genes for seed shape and 100-seed weight, the currentstudy used vegetable type and seed soybean-derived F2 and F2:3 mappingpopulations.