Registration of “Maya” Variety of Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill)

Abstract

Maya (PI-567190) soybean was developed by the Fedis Agricultural Research Center and was released in 2023. It is a high yielding medium maturity group variety adapted to the eastern Ethiopia particularly east Oromia. Then the trial was developed to evaluate and release stable high yielding and disease resistant/tolerant soybean variety for the east Oromia and other similar agro-ecologies. “Maya” soybean variety with pedigree of PI-567190 was developed through selection. It was evaluated at three locations; Fedis, Mechara and Babile for two years (2021 and 2022). Similarly, during verification trial “Maya” was evaluated with two standard checks (Awasa 04 and SC-status) and one candidate variety (PI-230970). “Maya” recorded 26.22 % of oil content while recently released variety “SC-STATUS” recorded 25.23. It has high oil contents that commercial variety Awasa-04 and recently released variety SC- STATUS. “Maya” soybean variety had higher seed yield and better stability performances with comparable oil content. It is resistant to common soybean diseases viz., bacterial blight, rust and bacterial pustule than commercial variety Awasa-04.