Patent ID: 8847006

Claim:
A method of establishing where a soybean plant or soybean seed should be grown by determining an allelic combination of a soybean plant or soybean seed, comprising: a. obtaining DNA from said soybean plant or soybean seed; b. determining the genotype of said soybean plant or soybean seed by i. determining if alleles at a locus within maturity genomic region 1 are homozygous or heterozygous by detecting via an assay a first maturity marker genetically linked to said maturity genomic region 1, and said first maturity marker is located within 20 centiMorgans (cM) of SEQ ID NO: 149; ii. determining if alleles at a locus within maturity genomic region 2 are homozygous or heterozygous by detecting via an assay a second maturity marker genetically linked to said maturity genomic region 2, and said second maturity marker is located within 20 cM of SEQ ID NO: 158; iii. determining if alleles at a locus within maturity genomic region 3 are homozygous or heterozygous by detecting via an assay a third maturity marker genetically linked to said maturity genomic region 3, and said third maturity marker is located within 20 cM of SEQ ID NO: 169; c. determining said allelic combination of said alleles within maturity genomic regions 1, 2, and 3; and d. assigning a maturity group value to said soybean plant or soybean seed based on said allelic combination.