The Tospovirus, which affects seed quality and reduces total oil content, can spread from an infected seed lot to seedlings at a rate of 6%, says University of Wisconsin.

Seven universities from the Midwest and Ontario, Canada, are in a partnership with the North Central Soybean Research Program to create a series of reference materials on soybean diseases.

Alyssa Collins, plant pathologist for Penn State University, has found a new soybean disease while visiting Pennsylvania farms.

Soybean vein necrosis is a newly identified viral disease in soybean fields that has the potential to reduce yields, according to Ioannis “Yannis” Tzanetakis, assistant professor of plant pathology in the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture.