Patent ID: 6927319

Claim:
A process for selecting a soybean plant which exhibits genetically-controlled herbicide resistance that is not attributable to genetic engineering comprising: (a) soaking mature soybean seeds in the absence of induced mutagenesis which are not genetically engineered for glyphosate herbicide resistance in a liquid comprising a glyphosate herbicide for a period of time sufficient for the herbicide to reach the embryos of the soybean seeds, (b) planting said soybean seeds following said soaking of step (a) in a growing medium and selecting at least one soybean plant that displays resistance to said glyphosate herbicide, and (c) confirming the resistance to said glyphosate herbicide in a soybean plant selected in step (b), which exhibits naturally-occurring genetically-controlled glyphosate herbicide resistance that is not attributable to a foreign gene for herbicide resistance introduced by genetic engineering.