Molecular Breeding to Reduce Soybean Anti-Nutritional Components.

High protein soybean meal is used extensively in livestock feed formulations.  Soyfoods are also enjoying an increase in direct consumer demand because of the numerous nutritional components in soybeans.  Altering the composition of soybean seeds is an important goal for improving the nutritional components of food and feed developed from this important commodity. The objective of this work was to combine alleles of genes that reduce the anti-nutritional compnents in soybean seeds and improve functionality of soybean protein and carbohydrates.   The results demonstrate that soybeans can be produced with new seed composition characteristics that can be evaluated for their functionality.