New Soybean Cultivar ‘Fukuakane’

Abstract

‘Fukuakane’ was developed at Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, NARO, from 2005 and was registered in 2022. This cultivar was selected from the progeny derived from the cross ‘Takeda Zairai 87E’, which was collected in Oita prefecture, and ‘Kyuko 980-11’, to develop brown red seed cultivar suitable for cultivation in Kyushu region. The seeds of ‘Fukuakane’ is brown red, and larger than that of ‘Fukuyutaka’, which is the leading cultivar in Western Japan. ‘Fukuakane’ is inferior to ‘Fukuyutaka’ in several agricultural traits, such as seed yield, lodging tolerance and green stem disorder tolerance. However, ‘Fukuakane’ is expected to be used for the production of well-characterized soybean food, because ‘Fukuakane’ is the first registered soybean cultivar with brown red seed coat color. The production field of ‘Fukuakane’ was 32 ha in 2022, and expected to expand.