The Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board recognizes the importance of continued soybean research to ensure our farmers are able to harvest better quality products. This research provides insight into new methods of crop management, which enables farmers to produce a soybean at an affordable price to the consumer. Soybean breeding, pest control, variety testing and disease management are among the many soybean checkoff funded research projects being done in our state.
The Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board convenes once a year to discuss new developments in current projects and to consider the addition of new projects. They seek out new and innovative proposals concerning soybean research. All funded projects are intended to further the development in the discovery of the soybean and its possible uses. These project proposals are submitted to Tennessee Soybean from research scientists and extension specialists from all over the state.
| 2015 Project Number | Project Title | Investigator(s) | Affiliation |
| 15-02-R | Screening of soybean varieties, breeding lines for charcoal rot, frogeye leafspot and phomopsis seed decay resistance | Alemu Mengistu | USDA |
| 15-17-R | Technical Support of Soybean Specialist | Angela McClure | UTIA |
| 15-20-R | Research and extension support for management of glyphosphate-resistant weeds | Larry Steckel | UTIA |
| 15-26-R | Support of Soybean IPM in Tennessee | Scott Stewart | UTIA |
| 15-28-R | 2014 Breeding Soybeans for durable resistance to emerging nematode populations combined with fungal diseases in TN | Prakash Arelli | USDA |
| 15-74-R | Developing a working greenhouse method for screening soybean germplasm, cultivars and breeding lines for charcoal rot resistance | Alemu Mengistu | USDA |
| 15-78-R | Soybean Scout Schools | Scott Stewart | UTIA |
| 15-100-P | Bt toxin-soybean looper interactions | Juan Jurat-Fuentes | UTIA |
| 15-85-R | Development of gene silencing to control kudzu bug in soybean | Juan Jurat-Fuentes | UTIA |
| 15-12-R | Soybean breeding and genetics | Vince Pantalone | UTIA |
| 15-25-R | Support of multi-county on-farm demonstration of county standardized testing | Ryan Blair | UTIA |
| 15-38-R | Technical Support for UT variety testing program | Fred Allen | UTIA |
| 15-98-P | Soybean Pathology – Foliar Disease Monitoring and Management | Heather Kelly | UTIA |
| 15-86-R | Molecular Breeding of High Oleic Soybean Adapted to Tennessee | Vince Pantalone | UTIA |
| 15-104-P | Soybean Agronomics- Cultural Practices and Fertility for Yield Enhancement | Heather Kelly | UTIA |
| 15-103-P | Determining Profit-Maximizing Practices for Soybean Production Using Agronomic Data | Aaron Smith | UTIA |
| 15-81-R | Increase soybean yield by overexpressing a “large seed” gene | Neal Stewart | UTIA |
| 15-99-P | Molecular approaches to discover soybean resistance genes against soybean cyst nematode | Neal Stewart | UTIA |
| 15-96-P | Development of an on-the-go image processing platform for the rapid determination of early season soybean vigor | Tyson Raper | UTIA |
| 15-97-P | Guilt by association in the soybean genome: Finding genes involved in agronomic traits using coexpression networks | Margaret Staton | UTIA |
| 15-82-R | Characterization of soybean protein kinases for drought resistance | Max Cheng | UTIA |
| 15-83-R | Increasing Soybean Yield by Enhancing Flower Visitation of Insect Pollinators Using an Molecular Genetic Approach | Fen Cheng | UTIA |
| 15-80-R | Establishing Cover Crops for Sustainable Soybean Production | M. Buschermohle | UTIA |
| 15-79-R | Sustainability of Tennessee Soybean Production | Lori Duncan | UTIA |
| 15-101-P | Utilizing Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) for Increasing the Profitability of Tennessee Soybean Production Systems | M. Buschermohle | UTIA |
| 15-102-P | Pathogenic viruses of soybean cyst nematode as potential bio-control agents | Reza Hajimorad | UTIA |
| 15-95-P | An innovative approach to pest and disease management in soybean through entomopathogenic nematode induced systemic resistance | Parwinder Grewal | UTIA |
| 15-105-P | Soybean Irrigation: Appropriate Timing and Amount for the Variable Soils of Tennessee | Brian Leib | UTIA |
| 15-89-R | Measuring Water Dynamics in Soybeans | Paula Gale | UTM |
| 15-90-R | Educating Drivers About Sharing the Road | Sandy Mehlhorn | UTM |
| 15-107-P | Foliar Nutrient Applications on MG IV & MG V | Wesley Totten | UTM |
| 15-65-R | Farm Animal Care Coalition of TN | Lou Nave | FACCT |
| 15-45-R | Ag in the Classroom | Chris Fleming | TFBF |
| 15-49-R | SSRP Membership | David Womack | SSRP |
| 15-110-P | Soil & Crop Irrigation Management (SCIM) | David Womack | SSRP |
| 15-46-R | WISHH Membership | Jim Hershey | WISHH |
| 15-108-P | WISHH Market Development Partnership | Jim Hershey | WISHH |
| 15-51-R | ASA Action Partnership (ASAAP) | Bill Schuermann | ASA |
| 15-50-R | NBB Membership | David Womack | NBB |
| 15-109-R | Advanced Biofuel Initiative | Tom Very | NBB |
| 15-67-R | U.S. Soybean Export Council | Parks Wells | USSEC |
| 15-106-P | USSEC International Projects | Parks Wells | USSEC |
| 15-63-R | Soy Transportation Coalition | Eddie Sanders | STC |
| 15-64-R | U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance | Gina Thompson | USFRA |
| 15-66-R | Center for Food Integrity | Gina Thompson | CFI |
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