Abstract
Soybean［Glycine max (L.） Merr.］ is one of the important legume crops for food and feed supply, and its seed contains about 40% protein and 20% oil of dry weight. In recent years, consumers have great attention in functional components of healthy food, and also desire health-oriented new cultivars. In addition, soybean genome was sequenced in 2010, and approximately 54,000 predicted genes were published on a database, which were predicted from their nucleotide sequences. Since the function about most of the predicted genes are still unknown, researchers desire efficient tools to explore their function. Here, I present an overview of our soybean mutant resource and mutant screening system, which have a potential to develop novel breeding materials.
