New soybean variety improves crop attractiveness

摘要

Moonbi is the latest soybean variety released from the Australian Soybean Breeding Program and represents a major step forward in combining desirable quality and agronomic traits. Moonbi should enhance soybeans as a profitable crop in areas such as north coastal and inland irrigated areas of NSW. Other improved varieties are in the pipeline for release over the next few seasons. A focus of the breeding program, led by CSIRO breeder Dr Andrew James, and funded by GRDC is to develop higher yielding superior quality culinary beans for expanding export and domestic markets. Moonbi combines high yield for its sowing window in a number of environments as well as excellent quality.