BRS 154, a soybean cultivar of broad adaptation
Paulo Fernando Bertagnolli; Emídio Rizzo Bonato; Leila Maria Costamilan; Aroldo Gallon Linhares; Leones Alves de Almeida; and Romeu Afonso de Souza Kiihl
The soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] cultivar BRS 154, originated from a crossing between Embrapa 1 x Braxton, was developed by Embrapa Wheat along with Embrapa Soybean. The cultivar BRS 154 was released in 1998 and designed to be cropped in southern Brazil. It has a high yield potential and good adaptation under no-tillage. It has field resistance to soybean stem canker, caused by Diaporthe phaseolorum f. sp. meridionalis, and is resistant to brown stem rot, caused by Phialophora gregata, frogeye leaf spot, caused by Cercospora sojina, powdery mildew, caused by Microsphaera diffusa, and bacterial pustule, caused by Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. glycines.