Yield and seed quality performance of the new soybean varieties developed at ARDS Turda

Raluca Rezi ¹, Adrian Negrea ¹, Camelia Urdă ¹, Edward Muntean ¹

¹ARDS Turda, UASVM Cluj Napoca

Keywords: soybean, yield, quality, progress, breeding.

 Abstract: To improve the Romanian soybean supply, continuous research is required to create varieties suitable for processing industry as raw material and to meet the market demands. Identifying genotypes adapted to the environmental conditions in our country by obtaining high, stable, and high-quality production is a priority objective of agricultural research. Soybean, is in the first 5 most widely grown crop throughout and has become more and more interesting to researchers being studied in many worldwide breeding programs such as the one from Agricultural Research and Development Station Turda (ARDS Turda), initiated in 1969. In the context of current climate change, the paper aims to present the progress made in conventional soybean breeding in Turda, in the last decade. Turda genetics offers farmers 24 varieties of different maturity, from the very early group to the semi-early maturity group. With 16 genotypes registered (64% of the total) the recent decade is the most prolific period for Turda soybean breeding program. Efforts have been underway to develop early maturing varieties. The newer high yielding varieties with pronounced stability of yield capacity and high fat and protein content, can be successfully recommended for food and feed. Also, Turda varieties are characterized have an ideal profile of fatty acids content.