Patent ID: 8697941
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: A01H,A01N,C12Q

Abstract:
1. A method of selecting a soybean plant or germplasm with tolerance or improved tolerance to herbicides that inhibit protoporphyrinogen oxidase function, the method comprising: a) detecting in a soybean plant or germplasm at least one allele of a marker locus that is associated with the tolerance or improved tolerance to herbicides that inhibit protoporphyrinogen oxidase function, wherein the one or more marker locus is a marker locus localizing within a chromosome interval defined by and including markers SATT495 and SATT613 on linkage group L; b) selecting the soybean plant or germplasm comprising the at least one allele of one or more marker locus c) applying the herbicides to the plants selected in step b) and selecting plants that have tolerance or improved tolerance to herbicides that inhibit protoporphyrinogen oxidase function.