Process for forming seeds capable of growing hybrid soybean plants

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Abstract of the Disclosure, An improved process is provided for forming seeds capable of yielding F1 hybrid soybean plants (i.e. hybrid soybean plants of the first filial generation) or maintaining male sterile soybean plants useful in the production of male fertile F1 hybrid soybean plants. Male sterile soybean plants (i.e. seed parents) and the male fertile soybean plants (i.e. pollen parents) are caused to undergo cross-pollination with the aid of pollen-carrying bees under conditions wherein pollen transport from the male parents to the female parents is significantly increased. Such pollen transfer is enhanced by growing the parent soybean plants at a location where natural rainfall is …