Dr. Andressa Nakagawa (Researcher, Crop, Livestock and Environment Division) received the Best Poster Presentation Award for her research achievement titled “A simple evaluation method for soybean genotypic variation of seedling emergence against soil crust” (Andressa Nakagawa, Kohtaro Iseki, Kenta Ikazaki) presented at the 254th Annual Meeting of the Crop Science Society of Japan (CSSJ) held at Fukushima University on September 20-21, 2022.
In this award-winning research, Dr. Nakagawa developed a simple method to evaluate seedling emergence of soybean after adjusting the hardness of the soil crust to a uniform level. She also applied this method to soybean genetic resources to screen potential accessions with stable emergence against soil crust. The results of this research are expected to contribute to the identification of soybean varieties and lines with high germination rate against soil crust in order to increase soybean cultivation in regions where soil crust occurs, such as West Africa.
