Patent ID: 8829266

Claim:
A method of identifying a first soybean plant or germplasm that displays tolerance, improved tolerance or susceptibility to Fusarium solani infection, the method comprising detecting in the first soybean plant or germplasm at least one allele of one or more marker locus that is associated with the tolerance, or improved tolerance, wherein the one or more marker locus is selected from the group consisting of: (a) SATT300, SATT591, SATT155, SATT266, SATT282, SATT412, SATT506, S60602-TB, SATT142, SATT181, SATT513, SATT549, SATT660, SATT339 and SATT255; (b) a marker locus closely linked to a marker locus of (a); (c) a marker locus localizing within a chromosome interval flanked by and including SATT300 and SATT155; (d) a marker locus localizing within a chromosome interval flanked by and including SATT282 and SATT506; and (e) a marker locus localizing within a chromosome interval flanked by and including SATT549 and SATT255.