Nutritional Values of Soybean Breeding Lines Grown in the Delmarva Region.

Soybean is the second most important crop grown in the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia (Delmarva) region for its protein and oil contents.  Several breading lines and cultivars of soybean were evaluated for their seed yield, protein and oil contents.  Genotypes D358B4009, M3583009 and Stalwart provided a grain yields of 3,295, 2,930 and 2,771 kg/ha, respectively. These three genotypes produced comparatively higher seed yield.  However, genotypes D358B3010, Hutcheson and Croton gave 45, 44 and 43 % protein contents, respectively, which were significantly higher than those of the other breeding lines.  Stalwart, Croton and D6872031 gave 18.67, 18.11 and 18.00 % oil contents, respectively.  Genotype E3582019 provided 15.74 % oil content which was the lowest oil content among all breeding lines examined.  It is concluded from this studied that some of the breeding lines studied provided seed yield, protein and oil content statistically similar to commercial soybean varieties in the Delmarva Peninsula.