Supporting western and northern expansion of soybean in Canada

To characterize mechanisms responsible for enhanced photosynthetic cold stress tolerance, efficient carbon utilization/export and sustainable yield production in soybeans.

To identify and characterize mechanisms responsible for low temperature insensitive flowering and maturity phenotypes of soybeans.

To design efficient screening tests for photosynthetic soybean cold stress tolerance and low temperature insensitive flowering and maturity phenotypes.

To identify soybean germplasm with enhanced cold stress tolerance and limited low temperature induced delay in reproductive development and maturity suitable for Western and Northern expansion.