Abstract
Human health is not achievable unless adequate amounts of nutritious and safe foods are available and accessible during all life
stages. An estimated one-third of the world’s population, largely in the developing world, is currently food and nutrition insecure.
The most obvious use of plant products in traditional biotechnology was for food. New and even better varieties were produced
when early humans learned to cross-pollinate plants and became plant breeders. Soybean breeding has resulted in signifiant
improvements in yield potential, stability of yield, adaptation of the species to mechanical harvest, and yield protection through
improved disease resistance. Due to the nature of plant science agriculture, broadly defied as a manipulation of available plant
resources to meet the needs of the growing human population, the environment in which plants are grown for agricultural production
continuously offers new obstacles to agricultural production. The present invention provides a tissue culture of regenerable cells
from a plant, or parts thereof, produced by growing seed and a soybean plant regenerated from the tissue culture. The present
invention also provides a method for developing a soybean plant in a soybean breeding program using plant breeding techniques.