ABSTRACT
A fundamental goal of many plant scientists is to broaden resistance of plants to pests and pathogens. Plant genomics promises to provide many new tools for plant breeders to develop elite germplasm with broader, stronger resistance more quickly and more economically. Plant genomics will improve methods for traditional breeding of resistance, and it will provide new tools and knowledge for devising strategies to broaden resistance to a multitude of stresses. This chapter will review recent advances in genomics in relation to developing resistance in soybean to the soybean cyst nematode, the most damaging pest of soybean.
