Patent ID: 8901375

Claim:
A plant of an agronomically elite soybean variety having a commercially significant yield comprising at least a first Fad3-1c allele which confers a decreased linolenic acid content of less than 4% by weight of total seed fatty acids, wherein the Fad3-1c allele comprises: a) a single nucleotide polymorphism at a position in the Fad3-1c gene sequence corresponding to nucleotide 687, 1129, 1203, 2316, 3292, 3360 or 3743 of SEQ ID NO:2; or b) a deletion of a sequence in the Fad3-1c gene sequence corresponding only to nucleotides 1129-1203 of SEQ ID NO:2; or c) a single nucleotide polymorphism at a position in the Fad3-1c promoter corresponding to nucleotide 334, 364, 385, 387, 393, 729 or 747 of SEQ ID NO:3.