But the crop’s most effective tool against soybean cyst nematode, genetic resistance, is starting to fail, so a multi-institution research team led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has ...

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Few pests eat away at farm profitability as much as soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Causing at least $1.5 billion in yield losses annually, it's soybean's single biggest threat. Unfortunately, soybean's ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed the first soybean cyst nematode pangenome, an important tool in fighting the most economically damaging pest of soybean.